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Class action suit against Clearview AI cites Illinois law that cost Facebook $550M
Just two weeks ago Facebook settled a lawsuit alleging violations of privacy laws in Illinois (for the considerable sum of…
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Surprise! Audit finds automated license plate reader programs are a privacy nightmare
Automated license plate readers, ALPRs, would be controversial even if they were responsibly employed by the governments that run them.…
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A new senate bill would create a US data protection agency
Europe’s data protection laws are some of the strictest in the world, and have long been a thorn in the…
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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start
California’s new privacy law was years in the making. The law, California’s Consumer Privacy Act — or CCPA — became…
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ACLU says it’ll fight DHS efforts to use app locations for deportations
The American Civil Liberties Union plans to fight newly revealed practices by the Department of Homeland Security which used commercially…
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Ancestry.com rejected a police warrant to access user DNA records on a technicality
DNA profiling company Ancestry.com has narrowly avoided complying with a search warrant in Pennsylvania after a search warrant was rejected…
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