San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies under which the police and sheriff’s departments will turn over license plate data they indiscriminately collected on millions of law-abiding drivers in Southern California. The data, which has…
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Chinese citizens must pass a facial-recognition test to use the internet as part of Beijing’s social credit system
Billie Thomson reports: China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to a new…
Veterans Affairs To Share Veterans’ Health Information Without Consent
Benjamin Krause reports: Thousands of veterans were alarmed to learn VA is quietly rolling out is plan to automatically share veterans’ health information with third parties without written consent. You got that right. Thanks to the VA MISSION Act, VA will now automatically enroll, or opt-in, all veterans into a health information sharing system with…
IL: Martwick fights to ensure student’s data privacy
rtandon writes: Illinois student’s personal information will be protected under a new law championed by State Senator Rob Martwick. Martwick (D-Chicago) sponsored House Bill 3606, which bans schools from commercially selling the meta-data of K-12 students who use school computers, and provides parents with some control over how the data may be used. Read more…