July 17, 2023 PRESS RELEASE: WASHINGTON, DC – The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to take decisive regulatory action to protect consumers from the predatory business practices of data brokers. In response to the CFPB’s inquiry into the shadowy data broker industry, EPIC filed extensive comments highlighting the vast range of…
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FTC and HHS Warn Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers about Privacy and Security Risks from Online Tracking Technologies
The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are cautioning hospitals and telehealth providers about the privacy and security risks related to the use of online tracking technologies integrated into their websites or mobile apps that may be impermissibly disclosing consumers’ sensitive personal health data…
This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal
“This is the systematic development and deployment of a vast surveillance network that invades society’s reasonable expectation of privacy.” — Ben Gold, lawyer. Thomas Brewster reports: In March of 2022, David Zayas was driving down the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale. His car, a gray Chevrolet, was entirely unremarkable, as was its speed. But to…
Norway regulator to fine Meta $100,000 daily over privacy breaches if it doesn’t comply with ban on behavioural advertising
Reuters reports: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms will be fined one million crowns ($100,000) per day over privacy breaches unless it takes remedial action, Norway’s data protection authority said on Monday, in a move that could have wider European implications. Regulator Datatilsynet said it would charge the fine every day from August 4 until…