Ned Oliver reports: Scott Durvin says he faced aggressive questioning from a Chesterfield County Police detective after his friend died of a drug overdose at the end of 2019. What he didn’t know at the time was that police had also begun secretly tracking his whereabouts by ordering Verizon Wireless to regularly ping his phone’s…
Category: U.S.
US schools are using smart cameras to target students without face masks
Didi Rankovic reports: A US school district with 95,000 students switched during the pandemic to using its “swarm” of automated surveillance tech to identify children who showed up at school without wearing a mask. The “smart cameras,” produced by Motorola’s Avigilon and capable of facial recognition and gun detection, were catching even those students who…
Lawsuit alleges Otonomo Inc. secretly collects and sells real-time GPS data from more than 50 million cars
A class-action complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court alleges data broker Otonomo Inc. secretly collects and sells real-time GPS data from more than 50 million cars worldwide without drivers’ consent. Read the complaint here. Source: Courthouse News.
Calls for HIPAA Lawsuit Follow Dismissal of Charges Against Lizelle Herrera
Note: Any informed reader will already know that HIPAA has no private cause of action. I wish the headline of this news story had not been misleading, but I suppose Newsweek’s editors could say, “Well people did call for it, so we’re reporting it even though it can’t happen.” Andrew Stanton reports: Calls mounted on…