Zack Whittaker reports: Uber says the number of legal demands for riders’ data made by U.S. and Canadian authorities has risen sharply in the past year. The ride-hailing company said the number of law enforcement demands for user data during 2018 are up 27% on the year earlier, according to its annual transparency report published Wednesday….
Category: Govt
It’s the user’s fault if a Ring camera violates your privacy, Amazon says
Kate Cox reports: Amazon subsidiary Ring, which makes home surveillance equipment and cameras, has “partnerships” with more than 600 law enforcement agencies nationwide, allowing those police access to users’ footage. And while Ring says it sets terms around how and when it will share that footage with police, anything the police do with it afterward…
Facebook says government demands for user data are at a record high
Zack Whittaker reports: The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased by 16% to 128,617 demands during the first half of this year compared to the second half of last year. That’s the highest number of government demands it has received in any reporting period since it published its first transparency…
For Years, the NYPD Kept an Illegal Database of Juvenile Fingerprints
Alice Speri reports: For years, the New York Police Department illegally maintained a database containing the fingerprints of thousands of children charged as juvenile delinquents — in direct violation of state law mandating that police destroy these records after turning them over to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. When lawyers representing some of those…