Tyler Sonnemaker reports: Newly unredacted documents in a lawsuit against Google reveal that the company’s own executives and engineers knew just how difficult the company had made it for smartphone users to keep their location data private. Google continued collecting location data even when users turned off various location-sharing settings, made popular privacy settings harder…
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‘FIND THIS FUCK:’ Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism
Elsewhere on this blog today, we noted that Citizen was scrapping it’s police-on-demand program. Now read this report by Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler to fully grasp how dangerous some apps — and some businesses — may be: It was Saturday night two weeks ago, and Frame, the CEO of the crime and neighborhood watch…
The Privacy Act Project: Revisiting and Revising the Privacy Act of 1974
Pam Dixon and Bob Gellman write: The Privacy Act of 1974 is an orphan. At a time when privacy is a hot legislative topic just about everywhere, almost no one has examined the Privacy Act, one of the oldest information privacy laws in the world. The act reflects the technologies of the 1970s, like ancient…
Clearview AI Hit by Wave of European Privacy Complaints
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Clearview AI Inc. was hit by a wave of complaints across Europe for allegedly breaking the region’s tough privacy laws by scraping billions of facial images from social-media profiles and the internet. In a concerted move on Thursday, campaigners including Privacy International and Noyb filed complaints with data watchdogs in Austria, France,…