Drew Harwell reports: U.S. government officials are adding data from as many as 10,000 electronic devices each year to a massive database they’ve compiled from cellphones, iPads and computers seized from travelers at the country’s airports, seaports and border crossings, leaders of Customs and Border Protection told congressional staff in a briefing this summer. The…
Category: Govt
EFF to California Governor: Protect Abortion Data Privacy
Adam Schwartz of EFF writes: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-choice sheriffs and bounty hunters will try to investigate and punish abortion seekers based on their internet browsing, private messaging, and phone app location data. Legislators must act now to protect this personal data. Reproductive justice requires data privacy. That’s why EFF urges California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign A.B….
Fact Sheet on the FTC’s Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Rulemaking
From the FTC: Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Technologies essential to everyday life also enable near constant surveillance of people’s private lives. The volume of data collected exposes people to identity thieves and hackers. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of errors, deception, manipulation,…
Data Broker Helps Police See Everywhere You’ve Been with the Click of a Mouse — EFF Investigation
Fog Data Science sells local police cheap access to a massive digital dragnet without well-defined rules. SAN FRANCISCO–Millions of Americans’ everyday movements can be traced by police with the click of a mouse and possibly without a warrant, thanks to a data broker that’s selling phone geolocation data to state and local law enforcement, an Electronic Frontier Foundation…