Sydny Shepard reports: District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine has introduced the Security Breach Protection Amendment Act of 2019, which would modernize the District’s data breach law and strengthen protections for residents’ personal information. Racine introduced the bill in response to the major data breaches that have put tens of millions of consumers,…
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AU: Proposal to Increase Penalties for Privacy Breaches
Cameron Abbott of K&L Gates of writes: In light of concerns over how personal data is being used by social media platforms and tech companies, the Commonwealth Government has proposed amendments to the Privacy Act in order to more harshly penalise companies for privacy breaches. The new regime, which aims to update Australia’s privacy laws in…
Telegram privacy features likely to prove controversial
Ben Lovejoy reports: Two new Telegram privacy features are likely to prove controversial. The first removes the previous 48-hour time limit for ‘unsending’ anything you wrote from the devices of both participants using the secure messaging app … The second is that you can now delete entire chats, again for both parties. Telegram announced the…
Privacy’s not an abstraction
Chris Gilliard reports: From lantern laws to sundown towns, from COINTELPRO and STRESS to stop and frisk and all the way up to the current regimes of technologically aided surveillance, the tracking of Blackness in this country has a long and sordid history. Being surveilled has been, and continues to be, the de-facto state of…