Tristan Greene writes: The ACLU and Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company, reached a legal settlement earlier this week that’s been hailed as a huge win by both parties. The big story here is that Clearview AI can no longer sell its databases to third party companies — but that’s not exactly news. […]…
Category: Govt
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
Joseph Cox reports: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to perform analysis of compliance with curfews, track patterns of people visiting K-12 schools, and specifically monitor the effectiveness of policy in the Navajo Nation, according to CDC…
Calls for HIPAA Lawsuit Follow Dismissal of Charges Against Lizelle Herrera
Note: Any informed reader will already know that HIPAA has no private cause of action. I wish the headline of this news story had not been misleading, but I suppose Newsweek’s editors could say, “Well people did call for it, so we’re reporting it even though it can’t happen.” Andrew Stanton reports: Calls mounted on…
The FBI is spending millions on social media tracking software
Aaron Schaffer reports: Social media users seemed to foreshadow the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — and the FBI apparently missed it. Now, the FBI is doubling down on tracking social media posts, spending millions of dollars on thousands of licenses to powerful social media monitoring technology that privacy and civil liberties advocates say raise…