Mary Katherine Wildeman reports: Connecticut lawmakers are considering a sweeping bill aimed at giving residents more control over sensitive personal data that websites and apps constantly collect, often in ways hidden to the average internet user. The law would give people with the right to access data that companies have collected about them, opt out…
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US schools are using smart cameras to target students without face masks
Didi Rankovic reports: A US school district with 95,000 students switched during the pandemic to using its “swarm” of automated surveillance tech to identify children who showed up at school without wearing a mask. The “smart cameras,” produced by Motorola’s Avigilon and capable of facial recognition and gun detection, were catching even those students who…
Lawsuit alleges Otonomo Inc. secretly collects and sells real-time GPS data from more than 50 million cars
A class-action complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court alleges data broker Otonomo Inc. secretly collects and sells real-time GPS data from more than 50 million cars worldwide without drivers’ consent. Read the complaint here. Source: Courthouse News.
You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way
Brian X. Chen and Daisuke Wakabayashi report: The internet industry shuddered last year when Apple introduced privacy measures for the iPhone that threatened to upend online tracking and cripple digital advertising. Google pledged similar privacy actions. […] Now tracking has shifted to what is known as “first party” tracking. With this method, people are not being trailed from app…