Nina Pullano reports: Amid rising concerns about the omicron variant, private businesses in New York City will have to require their employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The mandate is the first of its kind in the United States, bringing roughly 184,000 employers, including restaurants, gyms, and entertainment…
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Verizon May Have Just Enrolled You in a Data-Collection Scheme–Here’s How to Get Out
Phillip Tracy reports: Verizon customers who value their privacy should immediately opt-out of the phone carrier’s disturbing new data tracking service. As reported by Input, “Verizon Custom Experience” is a program being pitched to users as a way for the company to “personalize our communications with you, give you more relevant product and service recommendations, and…
‘Tool to Enforce Orwellian Rules’: 80 House Republicans Help Pass Bill to Fund Federal Vaccination Database
Dystopia is in the eye of the beholder? Katherine Hamilton reports: Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database. According to the bill, also called H. R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer…
What is the Online Privacy Act of 2021?
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: U.S. Congresswomen Anna Eshoo (D-California) and Zoe Lofgren (D-California) have reintroduced House Resolution 6027 for the Online Privacy Act of 2021. Some of the bill’s key differentiators from CCPA, CDPA and CPA: limitations on the disclosure of personal information to third parties that are not subject to the Act/jurisdiction…