Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users’ devices without their knowledge and without obtaining warrants, according to a class-action lawsuit filed this week by the New Civil Liberties Alliance. […] The Massachusetts app, according to…
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ANALYSIS: FTC Privacy Authority Is Poised for Breakthrough Year
Mary Ashley Salvino writes: If the Federal Trade Commission were a major league baseball team, it might be fair to view 2022 as a rebuilding year regarding its privacy enforcement authority. 2023, on the other hand, might just be the season that marks the FTC’s long-awaited return to a privacy authority winning streak. The FTC…
NZ: Submission to the Justice Committee on the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Bill (166-1)
As seen on the NZ Privacy Commissioner’s website, this is the Privacy Commissioner’s submission on the Criminal Activity Intervention Legislation Bill (166-1). Below is the full text of the oral submission made November 7, 2022: Here is the full written submission. Oral Submission Introductory Remarks Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today….
AU: Police Use DNA Phenotyping to Limit Pool of Suspects to 15,000
Chloe Xiang reports: The Queensland, Australia police have used DNA phenotyping for the first time ever in hopes of leading to a breakthrough for a 1982 murder. The department partnered with a U.S.-based company called Parabon NanoLabs to create a profile image of the murder suspect, a Caucasian man with long blonde hair. Police claim…