Drew Harwell reports: Amazon.com pitched its facial-recognition system in the summer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as a way for the agency to target or identify immigrants, a move that could shove the tech giant further into a growing debate over the industry’s work with the government. The June meeting in Silicon Valley was…
Category: Govt
FTC Releases Staff Perspective on Informational Injuries
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On October 19, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it released a paper on the Staff Perspective on the Informational Injury Workshop (the “Paper”), which summarized the outcomes of a workshop it hosted on December 12, 2017 to discuss and better understand “informational injuries” (i.e., harm suffered by consumers as…
NJ: Middletown released residents’ email addresses to a mystery third party
Russ Zimmer reports: On July 10, the Middletown government received a public records request seeking all the names and email addresses of people who had voluntarily turned over this contact information to the town in order to receive emergency alerts and updates on local happenings. Ten days later, Middletown gave “[email protected]” — the requesting party that…
EPIC FOIA: Records Show DHS Ignored Privacy, First Amendment Threats of Media Monitoring Program
From EPIC.org: EPIC has obtained records concerning “Media Monitoring Services,” a controversial DHS project to track journalists, news outlets, and social media accounts. The records, released in EPIC’s FOIA lawsuit against the federal agency, reveal that the DHS bypassed the agency’s own privacy officials and ignored the privacy and First Amendment implications of monitoring the coverage…