Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 7, 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) sent a draft decision to other EU data protection authorities, proposing to block Meta’s transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States. The DPC commenced an inquiry to assess the legality of Meta’s EU-U.S. transfers in the…
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A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
Lily Hay Newman reports: Everyone from advertisers and marketers to government-backed hackers and spyware makers wants to identify and track users across the web. And while a staggering amount of infrastructure is already in place to do exactly that, the appetite for data and new tools to collect it has proved insatiable. With that reality…
After Dobbs, Advocates Fear School Surveillance Tools Could Put Teens at Risk
After Dobbs, Advocates Fear School Surveillance Tools Could Put Teens at Risk Monitoring software could be easily adapted to flag abortion-related searches By: Todd Feathers As states rush to enact laws criminalizing abortion-related care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade, health advocates and civil rights groups are warning…
The Best & Worst States in America for Online Privacy
You can probably guess what state stacks up as the best, but can you accurately guess what state ranked the worst in this analysis by Private Internet Access? Thanks to Joe Cadillic for sending in the link for this.