Fikayo Walter-Johnson and Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU write: Last year, Sen. Ron Wyden raised alarms about one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent memory. Sen. Wyden revealed that the Arizona attorney general’s office, in collaboration with the Phoenix Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, had engaged in the…
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Murderer gets 30 years for fatal stabbing, claims jail is violating medical privacy rights
This news story was published in December but I am first seeing it now. Paul Blume reported: A Minneapolis man sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday for a brutal stabbing death earlier this year also filed a lawsuit claiming the Hennepin County Jail violated his medical privacy rights while in custody. A jury…
EPIC Urges FTC to Regulate Surveillance Tech Companies Using Police as Promoters
From EPIC.org: On Monday, EPIC filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission supporting the agency’s proposal for a trade regulation rule based on its Endorsement Guides. EPIC urged the agency to incorporate the full scope of the Endorsement Guides into its rule, as the FTC had included in its proposed rule undisclosed incentives (i.e., situations in which the…
Finnish SA: Administrative fine on Viking Line for unlawful processing of employees’ health data
As seen on EDPB: Background information Date of final decision: 9 December 2022 Cross-border case or national case, One-Stop-Shop Procedure: the decision was taken by national supervisory authorities following the One-Stop-Shop cooperation procedure (OSS). If cross-border, LSA: Finnish SA and CSAs: Swedish SA; Estonian SA; Norwegian SA Controller: Viking Line Oy Abp Legal Reference: accuracy…