Zack Whittaker writes: I consider myself a fairly privacy-conscious person, going out of my way to evade online tracking and, for the most part, avoiding spam mail. But when I found myself staring at my home address on the website of a company I had never heard of, I knew somewhere I had gone wrong. A…
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New York State officials are disregarding the law banning facial recognition in schools and are putting students in danger.
Juan Miguel and Daniel Schwarz of the NYCLU write: To protect students, New York State adopted a law in 2020 placing a moratorium on the use of invasive, biased, privacy-destroying biometric surveillance in schools. The moratorium cannot be lifted until the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issues a report on the risks and benefits of this…
Cookies: the Council of State confirms the 2020 sanction imposed by the CNIL against Amazon
This press release is pretty significant: In its judgement of June 27 2022, the Council of State confirms the 35 million euro penalty imposed by the CNIL on Amazon in 2020. The company deposited cookies on users’ computers without prior consent or satisfactory information. The CNIL decision of 7 December 2020 On 7 December 2020, the…
Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight
Sarah Perez and Zack Whittaker report: Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after the app promised it will encrypt its users’ private data to keep it out of the hands of the government. But TechCrunch found on…