Venkat Balasubramani writes: This is a lawsuit against Nike and its service provider (FullStory), which provides Nike with “session replay” functionality for its website. FullStory’s software allows Nike to capture information regarding website visitors: (1) mouse clicks, (2) keystrokes, (3) payment card information, (4) IP address, (5) location, and (6) browser type and OS. On…
Category: U.S.
The Impact of Carpenter v. United States in the Lower Courts and the Emerging Carpenter Test
John Wesley Hall points us to two recent articles of note: Lawfare: The Impact of Carpenter v. United States in the Lower Courts and the Emerging Carpenter Test by Matthew Tokson: The Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States was widely considered to be a sea change in Fourth Amendment law. Carpenter held that individuals…
Thousands of Geofence Warrants Appear to Be Missing from a California DOJ Transparency Database
California requires law enforcement to report the controversial warrants to a state database—but The Markup found massive discrepancies in how they’re reported By: Maddy Varner and Alfred Ng In the last three years, Google says, public agencies in California have increasingly demanded location data collected from people’s phones and other devices through geofence warrants—an evidence-gathering…
CPS teachers ‘blindsided’ after access to popular classroom software yanked due to new student privacy law
Sneha Dey reports: Online privacy advocates in recent years pushed Illinois lawmakers to force school districts to protect student data — but some Chicago Public Schools teachers say they were “blindsided” by the district’s enforcement of the law that’s led them to lose access to key programs used to teach thousands of students. […] Among…