Lauren Feiner reports: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., just unveiled her new proposal for digital privacy legislation, including a new federal agency to enforce consumers’ privacy rights online. It adds to a growing stack of bills aimed at empowering consumers with new digital rights and keeping tech companies’ data collection in check. In a Medium post announcing the bill, Gillibrand name-checks Google and Facebook as…
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How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails
Joseph Cox reports: The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users’ email inboxes and sells products based off that information to clients in the finance, travel, and e-Commerce sectors. The contents of Edison users’ inboxes are of particular interest to companies who can…
Web browsing histories are being given to Australian police under data retention powers
Josh Taylor reports: Law enforcement agencies are being provided with the web browsing histories of people under investigation using mandatory data retention powers, despite the federal government specifically excluding that practice in the legislation, the commonwealth ombudsman has warned. When the Coalition government passed mandatory data retention laws in 2015, the legislation explicitly ruled out…
How To Protect Your Phone Number On Twitter
Gennie Gebhart of EFF has a how-to protect your phone number in the wake of a breach that Twitter revealed this past week: The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users’ phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to protect themselves. Earlier this week, Twitter announced it had…