Julia Kadish & Harrison Schafer of Sheppard Mullin write: Florida recently passed a law governing DNA samples. The Act places several restrictions on the use, retention, and sharing of DNA samples. Those that violate the Act may face criminal liability. Requirements under the law Requirements under the Act are tied to “DNA samples” which include any human…
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Weekly Privacy/Civil Rights News Stories from MassPrivateI
Military-intelligence outfit Mitre at center of US digital vaccine passport push: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/26/cloak-dagger-military-intelligence-digital-vaccine-passport/ https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/19/health-wealth-digital-passports-surveillance-capitalism/ Other news about vaccination and surveillance: California Shuts Down 2nd. In-N-Out Burger For Refusing To Be “Vaccination Police For Government” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/26/contra-costa-county-california-shuts-down-in-n-out/ Parents Reported to Child Services for Keeping Unvaccinated Kids Home: https://theintercept.com/2021/10/25/covid-unvaccinated-kids-child-services/ If Courts Won’t Protect People’s Phones At The Border, Congress…
Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules, according to lawsuit.
David McCabe reports: Google said in an internal document that it had successfully “slowed down” European privacy rules in collaboration with other tech companies, according to a legal filing released on Friday. Ahead of a 2019 meeting with other major tech companies, Google said in a memo that it had “been successful in slowing down…
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…