Alexis Hancock and Hayley Tsukayama write: A COVID vaccine has been approved and vaccinations have begun. With them have come proposals of ways to prove you have been vaccinated, based on the presumption that vaccination renders a person immune and unable to spread the virus. The latter is unclear. It also raises digital rights concerns, particularly if…
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Uber defends sexual assault victims’ privacy, gets fined $59 million
Timothy B. Lee writes: The California Public Utility Commission has slapped Uber with a $59 million fine for refusing to hand over detailed records about more than 1,200 alleged sexual assaults involving Uber drivers in California between 2017 and 2019. “The CPUC has been insistent in its demands that we release the full names and…
EPIC Urges NJ Supreme Court to Protect Privacy of Personal Information in Government Records
From the good folks at EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an amicus brief in Bozzi v. City of Jersey City urging the New Jersey Supreme Court to protect the privacy of personal information in government records. The case concerns a business owner’s request under New Jersey’s open records law for names and home addresses that residents were required to provide…
FTC to launch sweeping privacy study of top tech platforms
Ashley Gold reports: The Federal Trade Commission will announce Monday that it’s launching a new inquiry into the privacy and data collection practices of major tech firms including Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook as well as its subsidiary WhatsApp, Axios has learned. The big picture: The move comes amid broader scrutiny for…