Tag: privacy news

As always, a lot going on! Hiding OUT: A Case for Queer Experiences Informing Data Privacy Laws Antoine Prince Albert III on Public Knowledge (publicknowledge.org) In a long, thought-provoking, and very timely piece, this article suggests The best way for any federal or state legislature to assure all consumers’ privacy is protected online is to…

Today’s top story is from right here in King County – home to Seattle, Microsoft, Amazon, and The Nexus of Privacy! How King County’s efforts to help at-risk students created a record that could jeopardize their privacy Daniel Gilbert on Seattle Times (seattletimes.com) King County’s Check Yourself questionnaire collecting students’ age, grade, race, language, gender…

Tell ShotSpotter: Stop selling surveillance MPower Change on New Mode (act.newmode.net) Yesterday, the Stop Shotspotter coalition kicked off a National Week of Action against ShotSpotter, an audio surveillance company that is deployed in Black, Brown, and poor neighborhoods around the country and targets them for more policing. ShotSpotter technology regularly sends police, falsely expecting to…

‘This Is a Massive Loophole:’ Activists Slam ICE for Using LexisNexis Data to Target Undocumented Immigrants Mack DeGuerin on Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) A public hearing in Cook County Illinois explored the way ICE buys data from data brokers like LexisNexis that would normally be protected under local laws and uses it to  target undocumented immigrants. “This…

It’s been a while since the last Privacy News, and there’s a lot going on! Privacy After Roe These Companies Know You’re Pregnant—And They’re Not Keeping It Secret Shoshana Wodinsky and Kyle Barr, The A.V. Club on Gizmodo (gizmodo.com) Gizmodo identified 32 different brokers across the U.S. selling access to the unique mobile IDs from…

Privacy after Roe Democrats widen scrutiny of tech over abortion data privacy Marcy Gordon, Associated Press (apnews.com) In the aftermath of the Supreme Court, Congressional Democrats are pushing tech companies on their privacy policies. Six House Dems sent letters to Amazon, Oracle, Near Intelligence Holdings and Mobilewalla asks asking how the companies handle location data…

New Records Detail DHS Purchase and Use of Vast Quantities of Cell Phone Location Data | News & Commentary Shreya Tewari on American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org) Thousands  previously unreleased records illustrate how CBP, ICE and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) get around the Fourth Amendment’s probhition of unreasonable government searches…

UK government introduces Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Matt Warman, Minister for Media, Data and Digital Infrastructure on questions-statements.parliament.uk Now that the United Kingdom has brexited from the European Union, what will happen to their data protection regime?  If you were guessing “they’ll gut it”, you’re on the right track.  The government’s new Data…

California Democrats Demand Stronger Privacy Protection Bill Maria Curi on Bloomberg Government (about.bgov.com) The bipartisan, bicameral ADPPA federal consumer privacy bill’s markup session, originally scheduled for last Thursday, has been postponed until next week. California Democrats are callling on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to ensure a leading privacy bill doesn’t undermine their state…

Surveillance critics blast SF police ‘power grab’ Eleni Balakrishnan on Mission Local (missionlocal.org) San Francisco was the first city to pass a law regulating government use of facial recognition.  More recently, though, Mayor London Breed has been pushing to roll back protections; and she’s just appointed a new “tough on crime” DA.  Now, the SFPD…

As always, there’s a lot going on!  There’s so much discussion of the impact of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision ending Roe that I’ve added a new Privacy after Roe section to the updates. Gun applicants in New York will have to list social media accounts Marina Villeneuve and Maysoon Kha on Associated Press (apnews.com)…

Lots of privacy news this holiday weekend!  But first, in honor of the Fourth, here’s Baratunde Thurston reading Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.” And now on to the links … Facial recognition use increasing at US federal agencies faster than oversight, GAO reports Alessandro Mascellino on Biometric Update (biometricupdate.com)…

Links from around the web … The End of Roe Means We Need a New Civil Right to Privacy Danielle Keats Citron on Slate (slate.com) Even the most private spaces and relationships are now ripe for surveillance, every detail about our bodies, health, and relationships amassed and sold.  We need to treat intimate privacy as…

Recent privacy news from around the web … You agreed to what? Doctor check-in software harvests your health data. Geoffrey A. Fowler on the Washington Post (washingtonpost.com) Software that thousands of clinics and hospitals across the United States use to check people into appointment harvests the information people provide and uses it to target ads.…

Today’s roundup has an international focus, looking at perspectives on the EU’s GDPR regulations, as well as new proposed legislation in the Canada and the UK. First, though, I wanted to highlight next Wednesday’s The Color of Surveillance 2022 conference, hosted by Georgetown Law’s Center for Privacy and Technology, focusing on Policing of Abortion and…

My plan for The Nexus of Privacy is to combine “news roundups” – links with short commentary – with more detailed posts like yesterday’s on federal privacy legislation. Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients Grace Oldham and Dhruv Mehrotra on Reveal (revealnews.org) Facebook is collecting ultra-sensitive personal data about…