David McCabe reports: President Biden will nominate Alvaro Bedoya, an online privacy expert, for a seat on the Federal Trade Commission, putting another critic of the technology industry in a key position to regulate the sector, the White House said on Monday. Mr. Bedoya is a lawyer who has studied the way new technologies can…
Category: Govt
Why the ACLU Flip-Flopped on Vaccine Mandates
Russell Berman reports: A dozen years ago, a deadly virus was spreading around the world, and authorities in New York issued a mandate that all health-care workers in the state get vaccinated. The American Civil Liberties Union objected. Forced vaccination against the H1N1 flu, the ACLU wrote at the time, “was not warranted.” The organization’s New…
GAO: Exposure Notification: Benefits and Challenges of Smartphone Applications to Augment Contact Tracing
GAO-21-104622 Published: Sep 09, 2021 Publicly Released: Sep 09, 2021 What GAO Found Exposure notification applications (apps)—which determine the proximity of users and notify people who have been in close contact with another user who was likely infectious—are expected to enhance the speed and reach of contact tracing and help slow the spread of infectious…
FTC Bans SpyFone and CEO from Surveillance Business and Orders Company to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data
Today, the Federal Trade Commission banned SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance business over allegations that the stalkerware app company secretly harvested and shared data on people’s physical movements, phone use, and online activities through a hidden device hack. The company’s apps sold real-time access to their secret surveillance, allowing stalkers and…