Mary Katherine Wildeman reports: Connecticut lawmakers are considering a sweeping bill aimed at giving residents more control over sensitive personal data that websites and apps constantly collect, often in ways hidden to the average internet user. The law would give people with the right to access data that companies have collected about them, opt out…
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Announce: Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (Citron)
Law professor Danielle Keats Citron’s new book is out. As seen on Twitter: My new book The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age is ready for pre-order! I’m so excited to share this with you. Thank you @wwnorton @PenguinUKBooks @VonCleland https://t.co/KoqruDrzim — Danielle Citron (@daniellecitron) April 13, 2022 Danielle…
The FBI is spending millions on social media tracking software
Aaron Schaffer reports: Social media users seemed to foreshadow the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — and the FBI apparently missed it. Now, the FBI is doubling down on tracking social media posts, spending millions of dollars on thousands of licenses to powerful social media monitoring technology that privacy and civil liberties advocates say raise…
You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way
Brian X. Chen and Daisuke Wakabayashi report: The internet industry shuddered last year when Apple introduced privacy measures for the iPhone that threatened to upend online tracking and cripple digital advertising. Google pledged similar privacy actions. […] Now tracking has shifted to what is known as “first party” tracking. With this method, people are not being trailed from app…