Hunton writes: On November 1, 2018, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) released a draft bill, the Consumer Data Protection Act, that seeks to “empower consumers to control their personal information.” The draft bill imposes heavy penalties on organizations and their executives, and would require senior executives of companies with more than one billion dollars per year…
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In a court filing, Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
Zack Whittaker reports: An unexpected declaration by whistleblower Edward Snowden filed in court this week adds a new twist in a long-running lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The case, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation a decade ago, seeks to challenge the government’s alleged illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of Americans, who are…
US senator working on bill that would jail CEOs for user privacy violations
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden is working on a bill that would bolster US consumer privacy rights, bring them to the level of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and even take protections one step further by jailing executives at big companies for lying or not reporting privacy violations. The new…
‘Stalkerware’ Website Let Anyone Intercept Texts of Tens of Thousands of People
Joseph Cox and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai report: This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. A website and app designed to let users monitor their children, employees, or illegally spy on their spouse inadvertently allowed anyone who was using…