June 20 – The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the agency will hold a series of public hearings on whether broad-based changes in the economy, evolving business practices, new technologies, or international developments might require adjustments to competition and consumer protection enforcement law, enforcement priorities, and policy. The multi-day, multi-part hearings, which will take…
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California Overhauls Police Database Oversight Procedures in Wake of EFF Investigations
New Data Shows Law Enforcement Abused Network 143 Times in 2017 San Francisco – Responding to years of investigations and pressure from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the California Attorney General’s Office has overhauled and improved its oversight of law enforcement access to a computer network containing the sensitive personal data of millions of state…
How does your school secure students’ personal data?
Gary Stern reports: Only one parent came to a “public forum” Wednesday in Harrison about the state Education Department’s efforts to protect student data from theft and misuse. Since protecting our personal information is one of the hottest issues of the day, and parents generally want to look out for their kids, we’ll chalk up the…
Amazon Shareholders Call for Jeff Bezos to Stop Selling Facial Recognition to Police
Sidney Fussell reports: On Friday, 20 groups of Amazon shareholders sent CEO Jeff Bezos a letter pressuring him to stop selling the company’s face recognition software to law enforcement, CNN reports. Called Rekognition, the software came under greater scrutiny last month when the ACLU published revealing internal documents related to its use by police. Numerous civil…