The AP reports: When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period tracking apps because they aren’t protected by federal privacy laws. Privacy experts have said they fear pregnancies could be surveilled and the data shared with police or sold to vigilantes. Some Washington state lawmakers want to…
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Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Jennifer Gollan of ProPublica reports: Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which may allow law enforcement to prosecute those who use the medications to end their pregnancies, a ProPublica analysis has found. Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on…
U.S. AI, IoT, CAV, and Privacy Legislative Update – Fourth Quarter 2022
Anna Hevia, Jayne Ponder, Olivia Dworkin, Jennifer Johnson, Nicholas Xenakis, Hensey A. Fenton III, Madeline Salinas, and Jorge Ortiz of Covington and Burling write: This quarterly update summarizes key legislative and regulatory developments in the fourth quarter of 2022 related to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), the Internet of Things (“IoT”), connected and autonomous vehicles (“CAVs”), and…
Section 230 Protects Services That Permit Anonymous Third-Party Posts–Bride v. Snap
Eric Goldman writes: This case involves two “anonymous messaging” apps, Yolo and LMK. Both allegedly target teens audiences. “Plaintiffs allege they received harassing messages in response to their benign posts on Defendants’ applications and did not receive comparable messages on other platforms in which user identities were revealed.” Both apps allegedly were not responsive enough…