Lots of surveillance stories, fines for Facebook, Google, and Apple, and much much more!<\/p>\n
Ben Brachfeld on amNewYork (amny.com)<\/p>\n
Anti-surveillance activists are working with progressive lawmakers in Albany seeking to curtail the proliferation of \u201cBig Brother\u201d as as government and corporate surveillance become an increasing part of everyday life. \u00a0The coalition plans to unveil on Monday a 10-point blueprint to make New York a \u201csanctuary state\u201d against surveillance, starting with bills to ban \u201cgeofence warrants\u201d and prohibit police from using fake social media accounts to ensnare suspects.<\/p>\n
Pablo De La Rosa on Texas Public radio (tpr.org)<\/p>\n
The Heritage Foundation locked on to the locations of at least 30,000 cell phones at non-government (NGO) migrant aid shelters and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities. The Washington D.C.-based conservative think-tank then continued tracking the movement of the devices across the country over the course of at least a month in January 2022. \u00a0Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and the Del Rio and Val Verde CBP processing stations in Texas were among the more than 30 migrant facilities that were \u201cgeofenced\u201d for data tracking in a report released in December<\/a> by Heritage.<\/p>\n Aaron Gordon on vice.com<\/p>\n \u201cAutonomous vehicles are recording their surroundings continuously and have the potential to help with investigative leads,\u201d an internal training document states.<\/p>\n Cate Cadell on The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)<\/p>\n After widespread protests, China relaxed its strict covid controls. But on the protesters themselves, the government unleashed a police state brimming with new surveillance technology.<\/p>\n Will McGough on Forbes (forbes.com)<\/p>\n The program claims to make security screening faster and safer. But there are privacy and data concerns as well.<\/p>\n noyb (noyb.eu)<\/p>\n This is a big one, because the Irish Data Protection Commission not only handed out a big fine, it required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to get opt-in consent to use the personal data of users for behavioral advertizing in the EU. \u00a0 Of course, Facebook et al will no doubt try to come up with another legal basis for using the data, at which point there will be another court case, but this is the biggest threat yet to their business model. \u00a0Kudos to noyb, which first brought the complaint five years ago!<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/p>\n Laura Kayali on POLITICO (politico.eu)<\/p>\n France\u2019s data protection authority CNIL has fined Apple \u20ac8 million for privacy violations. The regulator found that the U.S. tech giant did not “obtain the consent of French iPhone users (iOS 14.6 version) before depositing and\/or writing identifiers used for advertising purposes on their terminals,” according to a statement<\/a> released Wednesday.<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/p>\n Andrea Vittorio on Bloomberg Law (news.bloomberglaw.com)<\/p>\n Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google agreed to pay $23 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit brought by consumers who claimed its search engine shared their queries with advertisers or other third parties without their permission.<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/p>\n on International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp.org)<\/p>\n IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, chats with Lothar Determann about the new edition of \u2018California Privacy Law.\u2019<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/p>\n Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on The Register (theregister.com)<\/p>\n No passwords, but planety of stuff for social engineering and doxxing.<\/p>\n ALSO: <\/p>\n Nick Keppler on vice.com<\/p>\n The growing \u2018proptech\u2019 industry is now explicitly marketing surveillance tech as a way to evict tenants and raise rent.<\/p>\n Katyanna Quach on The Register (theregister.com)<\/p>\n Content analysis system scans data stored on its Creative Cloud services<\/p>\n Madhulika Srikumar on Nature (nature.com)<\/p>\n The implementation of ethics review processes is an important first step for anticipating and mitigating the potential harms of AI research. Its long-term success, however, requires a coordinated community effort, to support experimentation with different ethics review processes, to support experimentation with different ethics review processes, to study their effect, and to provide opportunities for diverse voices from the community to share insights and foster norms.<\/p>\n Tatum Hunter on The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)<\/p>\n CES brings a flood of new products for consumers \u2014 often with little vetting from their makers.<\/p>\n Julia Angwin on The Markup (themarkup.org)<\/p>\n A conversation with Meredith Whittaker<\/p>\n Jim Nash on BiometricUpdate.com (biometricupdate.com)<\/p>\n Apple does not violate BIPA by offering owners of its mobile devices the ability to unlock the operating system using their fingerprint or face.<\/p>\n on FRONTLINE (pbs.org)<\/p>\n \u201cGlobal Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus,\u201d a 2-part documentary from FRONTLINE and Forbidden Films, reveals how the NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware was used on journalists, activists, and others.<\/p>\n Justin Pot on The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)<\/p>\n Screens have gotten inexpensive\u2014and they\u2019re watching you back.<\/p>\n Ameesh Divatia, Baffle, Inc. on VentureBeat (venturebeat.com)<\/p>\n Companies that are proactive in their data privacy and security compliance approaches will find themselves in an enviable position in 2023.<\/p>\n Amanda Silberling on TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)<\/p>\n At the start of the year, a new law went into effect in Louisiana that requires age verification checks on porn sites.<\/p>\n Erhan Kahraman on Cointelegraph (cointelegraph.com)<\/p>\n David Chaum explains his game plan to create a central bank digital currency (CBDC) \u00a0that would also be appreciated by the crypto ecosystem in an exclusive interview. <\/p>\n Jon Brodkin on Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)<\/p>\n Lawyer says police didn\u2019t check man\u2019s height, weight\u2014or the mole on his face.<\/p>\n on International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp.org)<\/p>\n Goodwin Procter Partner and IAPP Senior Fellow Omer Tene offers a look ahead at privacy in the U.S. for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n See all articles by Elana Zeide on papers.ssrn.com<\/p>\n Algorithmic assessments increasingly shape individuals\u2019 success in education and employment. Schools, recruiters, and companies now rely on automated platforms<\/p>\n Skye Witley on Request a Free Demo (news.bloomberglaw.com)<\/p>\n Companies gained a limited new edge in defending their compliance with Illinois\u2019 biometric privacy law, following a recent state appeals court ruling that Apple Inc.\u2019s face and finger identification tools don\u2019t violate the statute.<\/p>\n Jonathan Joseph on Security Boulevard (securityboulevard.com)<\/p>\n Last fall, California drew first blood when it agreed to a $1.2 million settlement with Sephora over the cosmetics company\u2019s violations of the California<\/p>\n The A.V. Club on Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)<\/p>\n The Citizen app reportedly sent a push notification with Billie Eilish\u2019s address to 78,000 people as her home was being burglarized.<\/p>\n ABC News on ABC News (abcnews.go.com)<\/p>\n Facial recognition software was used bar an audience member from a New York City theater.<\/p>\n CBC on Yahoo News (ca.news.yahoo.com)<\/p>\n The N.W.T. information and privacy commissioner said the territory\u2019s health authority failed to properly report a privacy breach involving personal medical information that was mistakenly shared with the wrong patient. The commissioner found that the department violated the Health Information Act by\u2026<\/p>\n Jim Nash on BiometricUpdate.com (biometricupdate.com)<\/p>\n Two United States government documents about the use of biometric identification in occupied Afghanistan lack any mention of data security on the ground.<\/p>\n Brandon Taylor on InformationWeek (informationweek.com)<\/p>\n In the last 18 years, the internet has evolved at warp speed to keep up with busier lives and a craving for mobility, while also trading access for privacy.<\/p>\n Luca Bertuzzi on EURACTIV (euractiv.com)<\/p>\n Inter-institutional negotiations on the AI Act are expected later this year, and while the EU Council has reached its position, Germany has reservations on certain points that bring it closer to the European Parliament\u2019s position than that of other member states.<\/p>\n on vice.com<\/p>\n After gaining access to a powerful administrative account, the researchers could perform all sorts of tasks inside Reviver, the sole company that sells the digital plates in California.<\/p>\n See all articles by Karen Yeung on papers.ssrn.com<\/p>\n This two-part paper argues that seemingly \u2018technical\u2019 choices made by developers of machine-learning based algorithmic tools used to inform decisions by crimina<\/p>\n Brandon Vigliarolo on The Register (theregister.com)<\/p>\n Facebook, Insta told to pay up, make changes to data slurping process within 3 months<\/p>\n Lindsay Clark on The Register (theregister.com)<\/p>\n US spy-tech firm\u2019s controversial work with patient data pushed out 6 months due to delayed data platform procurement<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/p>\n See all articles by Elana Zeide on papers.ssrn.com<\/p>\n Algorithmic assessments increasingly shape individuals\u2019 success in education and employment. Schools, recruiters, and companies now rely on automated platforms<\/p>\n Brandon Vigliarolo on The Register (theregister.com)<\/p>\n Also, LastPass faces class action, and Louisiana says that, while the internet may be for porn, ID is still required<\/p>\n Image Credit: Privacy by Nick Youngson<\/a> licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a> from Alpha Stock Images<\/a> via Picpedia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots of surveillance stories, fines for Facebook, Google, and Apple, and much much more! Surveillance Fighting \u2018Big Brother\u2019: Anti-surveillance advocates in New York seek to halt creeping proliferation of cameras and tracking software Ben Brachfeld on amNewYork (amny.com) Anti-surveillance activists are working with progressive lawmakers in Albany seeking to curtail the proliferation of \u201cBig Brother\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-privacy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras<\/a><\/h3>\n
Tracked, detained, vilified: How China throttled anti-covid protests<\/a><\/h3>\n
Controversial Facial Recognition Software Has Been Implemented At Airports Across America – How Will Travelers Respond?<\/a><\/h3>\n
Facebook, Google, and Apple fined<\/h2>\n
Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertisment<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Apple fined \u20ac8M in French privacy case<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Google to Pay $23 Million in Search Privacy Deal With Users <\/a><\/h3>\n
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State privacy law<\/h2>\n
All things \u2018California Privacy Law\u2019 with Lothar Determann<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download<\/a><\/h4>\n
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Meet The Spy Tech Companies Helping Landlords Evict People<\/a><\/h4>\n
Adobe will use your work to train its AI algorithms<\/a><\/h4>\n
Advancing ethics review practices in AI research – Nature Machine Intelligence<\/a><\/h4>\n
It\u2019s 2023, and tech is still pushing unsafe products<\/a><\/h4>\n
Back into the Trenches of the Crypto Wars<\/a><\/h4>\n
Apple wins US biometric privacy case on appeal<\/a><\/h4>\n
Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus<\/a><\/h4>\n
The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs<\/a><\/h4>\n
5 reasons why data privacy compliance must take center stage in 2023<\/a><\/h4>\n
You must now verify your drivers license to watch Pornhub in Louisiana<\/a><\/h4>\n
The \u2018godfather of crypto\u2019 wants to create a privacy-focused CBDC: Here\u2019s how<\/a><\/h4>\n
Facial recognition error led to wrongful arrest of Black man, report says<\/a><\/h4>\n
Crystal ball privacy in 2023: US states, kids and AI<\/a><\/h4>\n
The Silicon Ceiling: How Artificial Intelligence Constructs an Invisible Barrier to Opportunity<\/a><\/h4>\n
Apple\u2019s Illinois Biometric Privacy Win Expands Compliance Tools<\/a><\/h4>\n
California\u2019s Sephora Settlement Puts Consumer Privacy First<\/a><\/h4>\n
Billie Eilish Got Doxxed on the Citizen App<\/a><\/h4>\n
Controversy illuminates rise of facial recognition in private sector<\/a><\/h4>\n
Health authority failed to properly report privacy breach, N.W.T. privacy commissioner says<\/a><\/h4>\n
The latest lesson on biometric data privacy could cost people\u2019s lives<\/a><\/h4>\n
Pivotal Moments In Data Privacy History<\/a><\/h4>\n
Germany could become MEPs\u2019 ally in AI Act negotiations<\/a><\/h4>\n
Researchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California\u2019s New Digital License Plates<\/a><\/h4>\n
How do \u2018technical\u2019 design-choices made when building algorithmic decision-making tools for criminal justice authorities create constitutional dangers? (Part I)<\/a><\/h4>\n
Meta fined $414m for using personal data without consent<\/a><\/h4>\n
Palantir\u2019s Covid-era UK health contract extended<\/a><\/h4>\n
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The Silicon Ceiling: How Artificial Intelligence Constructs an Invisible Barrier to Opportunity<\/a><\/h4>\n
No more holidays for US telcos, FCC is cracking down<\/a><\/h4>\n
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