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Ca: London Police snooped on personal health data 10,475 times in 4 months
Colin Butler reports: The London Police Service used a provincial database containing the personal health records of people who tested positive for COVID-19 at one of the highest rates in Ontario, snooping on private medical information 10,475 times between April and July. Law enforcement gained the unprecedented power to access people’s personal medical information when the database…
Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms
Joseph Cox reports: The Secret Service paid for a product that gives the agency access to location data generated by ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones, an internal Secret Service document confirms. The sale highlights the issue of law enforcement agencies buying information, and in particular location data, that they would ordinarily need a warrant…
GAO Releases Report on Privacy, Discrimination Risks of Facial Recognition
From EPIC.org: The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a key report about privacy and discrimination risks posed by the commercial use of facial recognition. The GAO completed the report in response to research showing the disparate impact the technology has on minorities, including a National institute of Science and Technology study which found that facial recognition systems misidentify Black women at disproportionately…