Nadia Bey reports: Four of North Carolina’s largest health care providers sent patient information to Facebook through a tool called Meta Pixel, a recent news report revealed, raising concerns about privacy breaches. On Friday, a class action complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco alleged a health data breach. It accuses Meta, Facebook’s owner,…
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TikTok says it’s storing US data domestically amid renewed security concerns
Karissa Bell reports: TikTok says it’s achieved a “significant milestone” toward its promises to beef up the security of its US users’ data. In a new update, the company says it has “changed the default storage location of US user data.” As the company notes, it had already stored much of its user data in the United…
Suspect in sex assault that ignited East High student protests charged with privacy invasion
Ed Treleven reports: A teen whose alleged sexual assault of a homecoming partygoer prompted student walkouts last year at East High School was arrested last weekend and charged Tuesday with invading the privacy of a 15-year-old girl at a McDonald’s restaurant in Stoughton where he worked. Read more at Madison.com. This is the first that…
EFF’s Flagship Jewel v. NSA Dragnet Spying Case Rejected by the Supreme Court
By Cindy Cohn We all deserve the right to have a private conversation online. That’s why EFF has taken on government surveillance for the past 30-plus years. One of our longest-running efforts has been to stop the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance that sweeps up tens—if not hundreds—of millions of innocent people in its dragnet….