Anonymous writes: When I learned that Google was acquiring the intimate medical records of 50 million patients, I couldn’t stay silent I didn’t decide to blow the whistle on Google’s deal, known internally as the Nightingale Project, glibly. The decision came to me slowly, creeping on me through my day-to-day work as one of about…
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For Years, the NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints
Alice Speri reports: For years, the New York Police Department illegally maintained a database containing the fingerprints of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents — in direct violation of state law mandating that police destroy these records after turning them over to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. When lawyers representing some of those…
Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
BOSTON—In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),…
Microsoft to apply California’s privacy law for all US users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a surprising announcement, Microsoft said in a blog post today that it would apply California’s upcoming strict privacy legislation to all its US users, and not just Californians. The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is currently set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. The upcoming law is considered one…