WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) announced the reintroduction of the No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act of 2021 (bill text), their bill to prohibit the usage of facial and biometric recognition in most federally funded public housing and require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to submit a report to…
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Reserved to the states…. some news on state level
Arizona Rebuffs Biden’s ‘Door-To-Door’ Vaccination Strategy, Blasts Admin For ‘Severe Breach Of Privacy’ Tim Pearce reports: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich expressed “great alarm” at President Joe Biden’s plan to send teams door-to-door to promote the COVID-19 vaccine to hesitant Americans on Tuesday, saying that the president’s strategy may be a violation of privacy. Brnovich sent…
‘Deeply alarmed’: China now ahead of U.S. on privacy law
Alexandra S. Levine reports: The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened digital surveillance around the world. But in China, where citizens had already been subjected to mass tracking by the government, the crisis helped expand an authoritarian system that has been refined and cemented as the norm. Yet, as the Chinese surveillance state grows, so does public pushback….
Improving Enforcement in State Consumer Privacy Laws
Hayley Tsukayama writes: Momentum for state privacy bills has been growing over the past couple of years, as lawmakers respond to privacy invasions and constituent demand to address them. As several states end their legislative sessions for the year and lawmakers begin to plan for next year, we urge them to pay special attention to…