Severin Carrell reports: The Scottish government and NHS Scotland have been rebuked for breaching data privacy laws on a Covid vaccine status app downloaded by millions of people. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which polices the UK’s privacy laws, said it had warned the Scottish government and NHS last year that there were serious privacy problems with the app,…
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Behind the stalkerware network spilling the private phone data of hundreds of thousands
Zack Whittaker reports: Last October, TechCrunch revealed a consumer-grade spyware security issue that’s putting the private phone data, messages and locations of hundreds of thousands of people, including Americans, at risk. But in this case it’s not just one spyware app exposing people’s phone data. It’s an entire fleet of Android spyware apps that share the same…
Amendment to Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill would force schools to out students in 6 weeks
This will get some children beat up, killed, or driven to suicide. Sam Sachs reports: A new amendment to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill would explicitly require schools to inform parents of their child’s sexual orientation, and put a deadline on how soon they must tell the family. The amendment filed by bill sponsor Rep. Joe Harding, R-Williston, on…
Florida House passes ban on abortion after 15 weeks, sends bill to Senate
Gabriella Borter reports: Florida’s House of Representatives passed a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy late on Wednesday, a measure several Republican-led states are pushing as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of such limits. Read more at Reuters.