Justin Sherman reports: In July, the House Oversight Committee sent letters to data brokers SafeGraph, Digital Envoy, Placer.ai, Gravy Analytics, and Babel Street as well as five personal health apps interrogating their collection and sale of people’s reproductive health information. Before that, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote letters to SafeGraph and Placer.ai about their sales…
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Seven North Carolina college campuses have secretly tracked social media posts of students, protesters
Cullen Browder reports: Big brother invasion of privacy or pro-active policing? That’s the question after a new report revealed seven North Carolina universities use or have used powerful social media-monitoring programs to keep an eye on everything from campus protests to student well-being to drugs. […] A new report from the Dallas Morning News, as…
Feds want drunk-driving detectors on all new cars after California crash that killed 9
Richard Winton reports: An investigation into a New Year’s Day crash in Avenal, Calif., in 2021 that killed nine people — including seven children — has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to call for an alcohol-impairment detection system to be installed in all new cars. The NTSB, which investigates the most severe traffic collisions along with other transit disasters,…
Newsom signs children’s online safety bill into California law
Rebecca Klar reports: Tech companies will have to put extra safety features and data privacy measures in place for California children on their platforms based on a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The law establishes the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act, which will put limits on the type of…