Andrea Vittorio reports: A tech industry group won a federal court order halting the implementation of an Arkansas law that requires parental permission to register for social media accounts and online age checks to access certain platforms. The Thursday ruling from the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas prevents the state’s attorney general from…
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Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions
Andy Rose reports that a white male is not only trying to tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies, but he is criminalizing — or attempting to — assisting a woman trying to arrange healthcare out of state. Yep, you read that correctly. The Alabama Attorney General calls it a criminal…
X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History
Aisha Counts reports: X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the company said in its new policy….
I tracked an NYC Subway Rider’s Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’
Joseph Cox reports: In the mid-afternoon one Saturday earlier this month, the target got on the New York subway. I knew what station they entered the subway at and at what specific time. They then entered another station a few hours later. If I had kept monitoring this person, I would have figured out the…