Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog: Assembly Bill 1651, or the Workplace Technology Accountability Act, a new bill proposed by California Assembly Member Ash Kalra, would regulate employers and their vendors regarding the use of employee data. Under the bill, data is defined as “any information that identifies,…
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Civil society to Amazon: Terminate your contract to host dangerous U.S. DHS biometric database
From AccessNow: Today, Access Now, Immigrant Defense Project, Just Futures Law, and over 35 human rights organizations sent a letter to Amazon Web Services calling on the company to end its agreement to host the United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database. The letter was sent in coordination with a protest…
Democrats: Google must protect privacy of abortion patients
Barbara Ortutay of AP reports: More than 40 Democratic members of Congress are asking Google to stop what they see as the unnecessary collection and retention of people’s location data, arguing the information could be used to identify women seeking abortions. Read more at Boston.com
The Handmaid’s Trail: Abortion Surveillance After Roe
Read the report by Albert Fox Cahn, Esq. and Eleni Manis, PhD, MPA at https://www.stopspying.org/handmaids-trail or download the report (18 pp, pdf) here. Great thanks to Joe Cadillic for making us aware of this one.