Zack Whittaker reports: Amazon has said the number of demands for user data made by U.S. federal and local law enforcement have increased more during the first half of 2020 than during the same period a year earlier. The disclosure came in the company’s latest transparency report, published Thursday. Read more on TechCrunch.
Category: Govt
Google CEO says tech giant deletes this information used by police
Brooke Crothers reports: Google now sets a time limit on data used by police for tracking suspects, the CEO said at Wednesday’s congressional hearing with tech giants. The data is used for a so-called “geofence warrant,” which taps into a massive Google database that tracks where you go anonymously. It’s part and parcel of a trend by tech…
Data watchdog: ‘Serious doubts’ over whether social welfare inspectors acted lawfully at airports
Jack Horgan-Jones reports: The State’s data watchdog has said it has “serious doubts” about whether social welfare inspectors were acting lawfully when gathering information at airports in relation to the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP). The Government’s controversial policing of the issue has become a millstone in the dying days of this Dáil term, and other…
EPIC to Congress: Create a U.S. Data Protection Agency
From the good folks at EPIC.org: In advance of a hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 6: Examining the Dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google,” where the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will testify, EPIC told a the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust that the U.S. needs a Data Protection Agency. EPIC told lawmakers…