From EPIC.org: In comments on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board’s Oversight Project examining section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), EPIC urged the Board to recommend that Congress prohibit “abouts” collection and warrantless backdoor searches. EPIC also urged the Board to recommend new and enhanced safeguards, including a larger role for FISC amici,…
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How Political Campaigns Use Your Phone’s Location to Target You
How Political Campaigns Use Your Phone’s Location to Target You Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements By: Jon Keegan As another election season draws to a close, political campaigns have learned a lot about many voters already, including when…
Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says
Thomas Germain reports: For all of Apple’s talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones do have a privacy setting that is supposed to turn off that tracking. According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with…
Study: Schools’ social media posts may be compromising student privacy
by American Educational Research Association U.S. schools and school districts have shared an estimated 4.9 million posts that include identifiable images of students on public Facebook pages, unintentionally putting student privacy at risk, according to a new study. Around 726,000 of these posts are thought to identify one or more students by their first and…