Joe Cadillic writes: Imagine calling an Uber to go to the movies and finding out that law enforcement knows who you are, where you are, where you are going and when you arrived at your destination. This is no fairy tale because Uber’s partnership with RapidSOS will allow law enforcement to know everything about you…
Category: Govt
Given Twitter’s failure to protect people from privacy violations and harassment, Congress should repeal Section 230
There’s been some grumbling in Congress about repealing or amending Section 230 of the CDA. If it is repealed, providers and platforms might no longer have immunity from lawsuits filed over content posted by third parties. Repealing Section 230 does not touch or weaken the First Amendment. What it would do is remove a get-out-jail-free…
After Backlash, Personal Voter Information Is Removed by New York City
Vivian Wang reports: Bowing to fierce criticism from elected officials and privacy advocates, the New York City Board of Elections has removed the voter enrollment books that it had posted online, which had included every registered voter’s full name, party affiliation and home address. The books, spanning thousands of pages in searchable PDF format, were…
N.S.A. ‘Unmaskings’ of U.S. Identities Soared Last Year, Report Says
Charlie Savage reports: Intelligence officials asked the National Security Agency to unmask the identities of Americans in surveillance-based intelligence reports 16,721 times last year — a significant rise from a year earlier, a new report revealed on Tuesday. But the N.S.A. also collected fewer logs of Americans’ phone calls and text messages for analysis by…