Ry Crist reports: Ring, the Amazon-owned video doorbell and home security company, came under renewed criticism from privacy activists this month after disclosing it gave video footage to police in more than 10 cases without users’ consent thus far in 2022 in what it described as “emergency situations.” That includes instances where the police didn’t have a…
Category: U.S.
These Companies Know When You’re Pregnant—And They’re Not Keeping It Secret
Shoshana Wodinsky and Kyle Barr report: A Gizmodo investigation into some of the nation’s biggest data brokers found more than two dozen promoting access to datasets containing digital information on millions of pregnant and potentially pregnant people across the country. At least one of those companies also offered a large catalogue of people who were…
Further Thoughts on ADPPA, the Federal Comprehensive Privacy Bill
Law professor and privacy scholar Daniel Solove writes: I recently wrote a post about my concerns about the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) (updated version after markup is here), a bill making its way through Congress that has progress further than many other attempts at a comprehensive privacy law. Despite grading the law a B+, I was skeptical of…
Federal Privacy Law Has Momentum, but There’s a Catch
The concerns over a federal privacy law that would pre-empt state laws continue. In addition to Daniel Solove’s thoughtful piece on the issue and EFF’s concerns, Julia Angwin had a conversation with Cameron Kerry. You can read that conversation on The Markup’s Newsletter.