Fikayo Walter-Johnson and Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU write: Last year, Sen. Ron Wyden raised alarms about one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent memory. Sen. Wyden revealed that the Arizona attorney general’s office, in collaboration with the Phoenix Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, had engaged in the…
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Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Jennifer Gollan of ProPublica reports: Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which may allow law enforcement to prosecute those who use the medications to end their pregnancies, a ProPublica analysis has found. Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on…
Sen. Brown’s bill would make Indiana 6th state with data privacy law
Brett Stover reports: State Sen. Liz Brown might not have been the lawmaker most likely to introduce a major data privacy bill. In fact, the Fort Wayne Republican even called herself “the least tech person” during an interview last week. But Brown’s consumer data privacy proposal, Senate Bill 5, isn’t just one of the hundreds of…
Nothing Is Really Private, Until It Is Required to Be: Mississippi Legislature Proposes “Biometric Identifiers Privacy Act” to Protect Individual’s Personal Information
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP writes: Over the past few decades, technology has taken a fascinating turn. One can use a retinal scan to expedite the airport security process. Need to clock in for work? This can be done with the scan of a finger. We even have the convenience of unlocking our iPhones with…