Maria Dinzeo reports: The Ninth Circuit said it will not rehear a long-running constitutional challenge to the federal government’s warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens. The appellate court’s order issued Tuesday comes after a three-judge panel affirmed with little explanation a federal judge’s dismissal in August. Read more on Courthouse News. h/t, Joe Cadillic
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YouTube, TikTok defend teen privacy plans amid Facebook scrutiny
Rebecca Kern reports: Social media companies YouTube, TikTok and Snap will tout established protections of teen privacy to counter lawmaker questioning at a Tuesday hearing, seeking to distance themselves from the criticism faced by rival Facebook, according to their prepared remarks. Executives from the companies face senators one day after a consortium of 17 news…
A Look at What ISPs Know About You: Examining the Privacy Practices of Six Major Internet Service Providers
Many internet service providers (ISPs) collect and share far more data about their customers than many consumers may expect—including access to all of their Internet traffic and real-time location data—while failing to offer consumers meaningful choices about how this data can be used, according to an FTC staff report on ISPs’ data collection and use practices. The…
Senate Dials Back Plan to Force SSN Collection by Payment Services, As EPIC Urged
From EPIC.org: The Senate Finance Committee has significantly scaled back a proposal in the pending budget reconciliation bill to expand the mandatory reporting regime for private financial information in the United States, a move that EPIC and peer organizations called for last month. The original proposal would have required peer-to-peer apps and services to provide the IRS with Tax…