Sean Moran reports: Forty-three attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter, obtained by Breitbart News, to the FTC ahead of its Wednesday hearing on competition and consumer protection, which will include many prominent attorneys general such as Louisiana AG Jeff Landry, asking that the agency make reforms to protect consumers, consumer privacy, and competition in technology…
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Give up your password or go to jail: Police push legal boundaries to get into cellphones
Jon Schuppe reports: William Montanez is used to getting stopped by the police in Tampa, Florida, for small-time traffic and marijuana violations; it’s happened more than a dozen times. When they pulled him over last June, he didn’t try to hide his pot, telling officers, “Yeah, I smoke it, there’s a joint in the center…
Cn: CAC Releases Draft Regulation on the Protection of Children’s Personal Information Online
Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington & Burling write: On May 31, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released the draft Regulation on the Protection of Children’s Personal Information Online (“Draft Regulation”) for public comment. (An official Chinese version is available here and an unofficial English translation of the Draft Regulation is…
Auditor Says FBI Database of Faces Lacks Privacy Safeguards
Brandi Buchman reports: Back for Day 2 of an oversight hearing on the government’s use of facial-recognition software, lawmakers were left momentarily and uncharacteristically speechless Tuesday as an auditor at Homeland Security detailed the FBI’s database of 640 million faces, a number that is twice the population of the United States. Gretta Goodwin, director of…