Juan Miguel and Daniel Schwarz of the NYCLU write: To protect students, New York State adopted a law in 2020 placing a moratorium on the use of invasive, biased, privacy-destroying biometric surveillance in schools. The moratorium cannot be lifted until the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issues a report on the risks and benefits of this…
Category: Govt
Unsurprisingly, hacktivists protest the overturn of a woman’s right to her own body
The announcement appeared on the Telegram channel of a group calling themself “SiegedSec:” TIME FOR SOME 1337 H4CKTIVISM!!! (4 the record, we will still do blackhat stuff 😉 Like many, we are also pro-choice, one shouldn’t be denied access to abortion. As added pressure to the U.S government, we have leaked many internal documents and…
House Passes Chairman Nadler’s NDO Fairness Act
June 21 -Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 7072, the NDO Fairness Act, which will protect the due process rights of all Americans in the face of excessive government surveillance and data collection. This bipartisan legislation, which passed by voice vote, was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Congressman Scott…
Twitter apologizes for using your personal information for tailored advertising
Twitter issued an apology today. The text of it is reproduced below, in full. As background or context, you may wish to read this post about the FTC’s actions. We may have asked for your phone number or email address to secure or authenticate your account (for example, for two-factor authentication). As we told you in October…