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…
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Study shows limited control over privacy breaches by pre-installed Android apps
Paul Day and Paresh Day report: An independent study lead by an academic group in Spain has shown that what personal information can be collected by pre-installed programs on new Android mobile devices is expansive and faces little oversight. The investigation by the public Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Networks Institute and Stony Brook…
Facebook sends 30-page response Turkish data protection authority
BARIŞ ŞIMŞEK reports: The Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) has seen new developments in the investigation it launched against Facebook as part of its “data security breach” and “data abuse” research. In response to the information KVKK officials requested about Facebook’s data processing system, Facebook sent a 30-page plea to the organization. The authority is…
NZ: Privacy Commissioner John Edwards reappointed
From the office of New Zealand’s privacy commissioner, some welcome news: John Edwards has been reappointed by the Government to serve another term as Privacy Commissioner. Mr Edwards was appointed in December 2013 and began in the role in February 2014. His reappointment will take his term as Privacy Commissioner to 2024. The Privacy Commissioner…