Nicholas Iovino reports: Despite prior court rulings that police can collect DNA samples from people arrested but not convicted of crimes, a state court judge hinted Wednesday that holding onto that DNA data might violate the California Constitution. “What about the person who is arrested mistakenly,” San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman asked in…
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What Does the New Utah Electronic Data Privacy Law Do?
Anne Bolamperti and Patrick X. Fowler of Snell & Wilmer write: Utah recently became the first state to enact a law specifically designed to protect private electronic information stored with third parties from collection by law enforcement without a valid warrant. Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed the ground-breaking legislation on March 27, 2019, and it…
Given Twitter’s failure to protect people from privacy violations and harassment, Congress should repeal Section 230
There’s been some grumbling in Congress about repealing or amending Section 230 of the CDA. If it is repealed, providers and platforms might no longer have immunity from lawsuits filed over content posted by third parties. Repealing Section 230 does not touch or weaken the First Amendment. What it would do is remove a get-out-jail-free…
Google adds option to auto-delete search and location history data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Following a year’s worth of privacy scandals and criticism for collecting users’ geo-location data, Google announced today plans to roll out a new feature that will let users auto-delete location, browsing, and search history data from their accounts after a certain period of time. The new feature is set to roll out…