Joseph Cox reports: “Give your neighborhood peace of mind,” an advertisement for Flock, a line of smart surveillance cameras, reads. A February promotional video claims that the company’s “mission is to eliminate nonviolent crime across the country. We can only do that by working with every neighborhood and every police department throughout the country.” Quietly, this…
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Virginia Becomes the Second State with a Comprehensive Privacy Law
Kyle Dull, Kyle R. Fath, and Patrick Waldrop of BakerHostetler write: Governor Ralph Northam has signed the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), making Virginia the second state with a comprehensive privacy law. The CDPA is inspired by both the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and General Data Protection Regulation and takes effect Jan. 1, 2023…
Phone Data Must Be Limited to Major Crime Probes, Top EU Court Says
Molly Quell reports: Personal cellphone data can be used only in the investigation of serious crimes, the EU’s high court found on Tuesday. In its decision, the European Court of Justice noted that, unless it’s for a serious crime or in the interest of public safety, countries are prohibited from obtaining location data under the European…
Google’s schools software misses privacy safeguards, Dutch ministers say
DutchNews.nl reports: Products designed by Google for use in schools are do not have sufficient privacy safeguards in place, education ministers Arie Slob and Ingrid van Engelshoven have told MPs in a briefing. […] Ministers are in talks with both Google and the European Commission to sort out the data protection issue. The aim, the…