Priya Anand reports: About one in five students are worried that surveillance technology used by their schools could flag searches for reproductive health care or gender-affirming care from their computers, according to a report published by the American Civil Liberties Union Tuesday. Startups that sell technology to help schools monitor what students do online saw a boom in…
Category: Online
New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy
Alexei Miagkov and Daly Barnett write: We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through…
Where are HHS and the FTC on online privacy for people with substance use disorder?
Jacqueline Seitz writes: The era of rampant, unconsented, and unregulated online data collection may finally be winding down for consumer health data. But the advances in consumer privacy have not yet fully reached the millions of people with health information related to their drug use, substance use disorder treatment, or recovery. In July, two key…
Good news: Part of UK’s Online Safety Bill is Suspended — At Least for Now
Scott Ikeda reports: The most controversial portion of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Bill appears to be dead in the water, as Ofcom has publicly admitted that the technology to create backdoors into encrypted messaging without breaking it does not exist and that the “spy clause” will not be enforced when the bill becomes law….