To add to your must-read list: Richards, Neil M. and Hartzog, Woodrow, A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law (July 3, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract= Abstract Data privacy law fails to stop companies from engaging in self-serving, opportunistic behavior at the expense of those who trust them with their data. This is a problem. Modern…
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Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms
Joseph Cox reports: The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service document confirms. The sale highlights the issue of law enforcement agencies buying information, and in particular location data, that they would ordinarily need a warrant…
We need a full investigation into Siri’s secret surveillance campaign
Ted Greenberg, who served as a federal prosecutor in the US justice department, and investigated money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud and corruption during his time there, has an OpEd in The Guardian that begins: No one wants their most private activities secretly monitored. That’s why wiretapping is strictly regulated in the US and most of…
Whoops, our bad, we just may have ‘accidentally’ left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry
Katyanna Quach reports: In brief: Your Google Home speaker may have been quietly recording sounds around your house without your permission or authorization, it was revealed this week. The Chocolate Factory admitted it had accidentally turned on a feature that allowed its voice-controlled AI-based assistant to activate and snoop on its surroundings. Normally, the device…