Karl Bode writes: Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat). Massive amounts of driver behavior is collected by your car, and even more is hoovered up from your smartphone every time you connect. This data isn’t secured,…
Category: Court
Attorney General Todd Rokita drops lawsuit against IU Health tied to 10-year-old’s abortion
Kayla Dwyer reports: Attorney General Todd Rokita has dropped his lawsuit against IU Health, originally waged in the wake of the media firestorm over an anecdote one of the system’s doctors shared with IndyStar about a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to Indiana for an abortion. Rokita filed the lawsuit in September of last year, alleging IU Health violated…
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional
Andrew Crocker writes: In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general, exploratory rummaging” that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment intended to outlaw. EFF…
X to suspend use of EU users’ data for training AI chatbot
It was just days ago that PogoWasRight noted news that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission had launched High Court proceedings against X because of how it uses the personal data of European users to train its artificial intelligence system, “Grok.” There is already a new development in the case. Irish Legal News reports that the matter…