Tyler Durden reports: As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the “War on Terror,” the Department of Homeland Security is now allocating $1 billion in taxpayer funding to create a facial recognition program that will illegally scan Americans’ faces. A study conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center for Privacy and Technology looked at the…
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DHS Documents Show Harassment And Intrusive Device Searches Are A Common Occurrence At US Borders
Tim Cushing writes: This is apparently the price we pay to live in the Land of the Free: Grievances over lost privacy run through a trove of roughly 250 complaints by people whose laptops and phones were searched without a warrant as they crossed the United States border. Filed with the Department of Homeland Security…
Appeals court says privacy group can’t challenge Trump voter fraud panel
Melissa Quinn reports: A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a privacy group lacks the legal standing to sue President Trump’s voter fraud commission over its collection of voter roll data. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the lawsuit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center,…
Data transfer from WHATSAPP to FACEBOOK: CNIL publicly serves formal notice for lack of legal basis
From the French data protection authority, CNIL: In 2014, the company WHATSAPP was acquired by the company FACEBOOK Inc. On 25 August 2016, the company WHATSAPP released a new version of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for its application WhatsApp. It is explained that from now on, its users’ data are transferred to…