Privacy News & Issues
John Wesley Hall writes: (1) Florida’s 4th DCA finds a reasonable expectation of privacy in Facebook private messages as analogous to cell phone text messages. (2) When the records were seized under a warrant for a theft, they couldn’t be searched for evidence of this crime, a shooting. Therefore, the good faith exception is not…
AFP reports: Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic content”, weeks after his arrest in France on charges of failing to act against criminals using the app. Telegram’s search feature “has been abused by people who violated our terms of service to sell illegal goods”,…
The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology A report by the U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS, September 2024 Access the 194-page report at https://www.usccr.gov/files/2024-09/civil-rights-implications-of-frt_0.pdf via Joe Cadillic
Earlier this month, the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) wrote: The Texas Observer reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for the Tangles surveillance tool, originally designed by former Israeli military officers to catch terrorists in the Middle East. In its acquisition plan, DPS references the…