Wendy Davis reports: The Federal Trade Commission should prevent ride-sharing service Uber from accessing users’ contact lists or unnecessarily gathering users’ geolocation data, the watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center says in a complaint filed today. “There is a clear divide between Uber’s representations as to their consumers’ control over their personal information, and Uber’s actual…
Category: Govt
US again takes people off “no-fly” list to try to evade judicial review
From Papers, Please! Four days before a Federal judge was scheduled to hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by four Muslim US citizens who were placed on the US government’s “no-fly” list to try to pressure them into becoming informants for the FBI, the government has notified the plaintiffs in the case that all of them have been removed…
Privacy Advocates Walk Out in Protest Over U.S. Facial-Recognition Code of Conduct
Dan Froomkin writes: Technology industry lobbyists have so thoroughly hijacked the Commerce Department process for developing a voluntary code of conduct for the use of facial recognition technology that nine privacy advocates involved withdrew in protest on Monday. “At a base minimum, people should be able to walk down a public street without fear that…
Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by U.S. data hack
Arshad Mohammed and Joseph Menn report: When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate’s wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government. The disclosure last week that hackers had penetrated a database containing such…