Ayang Macdonald reports: Nigerian President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Wednesday June 14 signed into law the country’s Data Protection Bill, weeks after it was okayed by the country’s National Assembly. The move now brings to an end lingering efforts which started in 2018 to enact the legislation in a country on the full course of…
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Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook
The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel By: Colin Lecher and Jon Keegan This article was copublished with STAT, a national publication that delivers trusted and authoritative journalism about health, medicine, and the life sciences. Sign up for its health tech…
US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data
Zack Whittaker reports: A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast amounts of commercially available information on Americans, including data from connected vehicles, web browsing data, and smartphones. By the U.S. government’s own admission, the data it purchases “clearly provides intelligence value,” but also “raises significant…
One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat
Julia Angwin has an OpEd on the NY Times. She writes, in part: One of the last bastions of privacy are encrypted messaging programs such as Signal and WhatsApp. These apps, which employ a technology called end-to-end encryption, are designed so that even the app makers themselves cannot view their users’ messages. Texting on one of…