Jon Schuppe reports: A teen charged with setting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese immigrant family in Denver, Colorado, has become the first person to challenge police use of Google search histories to find someone who might have committed a crime, according to his lawyers. The pushback against this surveillance tool, known as a…
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HHS Issues Guidance to Protect Patient Privacy in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on Roe
Guidance includes information about what’s protected – and what’s not – when using period trackers and other health information apps on smartphones. On the heels of the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the right to safe and legal abortion was taken away, President Biden and U.S. Department of Health and…
New York State officials are disregarding the law banning facial recognition in schools and are putting students in danger.
Juan Miguel and Daniel Schwarz of the NYCLU write: To protect students, New York State adopted a law in 2020 placing a moratorium on the use of invasive, biased, privacy-destroying biometric surveillance in schools. The moratorium cannot be lifted until the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issues a report on the risks and benefits of this…
Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight
Sarah Perez and Zack Whittaker report: Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after the app promised it will encrypt its users’ private data to keep it out of the hands of the government. But TechCrunch found on…