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…
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UPDATE: CNIL orders three controllers to comply with GDPR after decision that using Google Analytics is illegal
noyb reports: Only two weeks after the groundbreaking decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) ordered three French websites to comply with the GDPR. All these decisions are based on noyb’s 101 model complaints which were filed after the…
PSNI officer allegedly took photograph of suicide victim’s body
Allison Morris reports: A referral to the Police Ombudsman by former chief constable George Hamilton led to a grim discovery that resulted in two serving officers being investigated for sharing pictures of a dead body. A file on the two officers, under investigation for a raft of offences, has now been sent to the Public Prosecution…
EFF Files FOIA Lawsuit Against DHS to Shed Light on Secretive Extreme Vetting Program to Collect and Data Mine Immigrants’ Social Media Speech
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records about a multi-million dollar, secretive program that surveils immigrants and other foreign visitors’ speech on social media. DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the Visa Lifestyle Vetting Initiative (VLVI)…