Amanda Holpuch and Lauren Aratani report: Photojournalist Ariana Drehsler was stopped for a secondary screening three separate times in one week while crossing the US-Mexico border to cover the migrant caravan in Tijuana this winter – unaware that the journey she had taken countless times before was suddenly more complicated because her name was logged…
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What’s Your DNA Worth? LunaDNA Will Help You Find Out
Remember when data was the new oil? Now it may be your DNA. Simon Erickson reports: …A fairly new company called LunaDNA may have cracked the code. Founded last year, LunaDNA began working on a community-owned approach that encrypts DNA information on a blockchain. Users could give their permission to access this information, letting them have control…
EPIC Seeks from FTC All Consumer Complaints about Facebook
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an urgent Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission seeking all pending complaints. As a result of the extensive work of consumer organizations, the Commission issued a consent order against Facebook in 2011 barring the company from making any future misrepresentations about the privacy and security of…
Princeton data broker tried to sell personal info on a million kids but didn’t tell state officials
Christian Hetrick reports: A New Jersey data broker that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website. ALC Inc., a Princeton-based company, failed to acknowledge…