Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms, according to an investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News By: Darius Tahir for KFF Health News and Simon Fondrie-Teitler for The Markup This article was coreported with KFF Health News, a national newsroom that…
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Cyberstalkers Win First Amendment Victory in the US Supreme Court
Lily Hay Newman reports: On Tuesday, a 7-2 decision by the US Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who repeatedly threatened a stranger online. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the majority opinion that First Amendment free speech protections require such cases to show that online harassers or cyberstalkers were aware that their digital…
Senators ask Amazon some very important questions about data collection and use by Amazon Clinic
You can read the senators’ June 16 letter, below. They ask Amazon to respond by June 30. If you or anyone you care about has thought about signing up for Amazon Clinic, do read the senators’ questions, below, and then check back for a follow-up on this inquiry and issues. Thanks to Joe Cadillic for…
LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes
Sam Biddle reports: The legal research and public records data broker LexisNexis is providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with tools to target people who may potentially commit a crime — before any actual crime takes place, according to a contract document obtained by The Intercept. LexisNexis then allows ICE to track the purported pre-criminals’…