Stephen J. Cosentino and Ethan J. Sanders of Stinson LLP write: At select ballparks across the country, fans can speed through security screen procedures using thumbprint scans. Sports venues from Madison Square Garden to CenturyLink Field now use biometrics to enhance game day experience. Major League Baseball in particular has led the charge with biometric…
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Signal’s smartass ad exposes Facebook’s creepy data collection
Thomas Macaulay reports: Facebook is notorious for generating creepily personal ads from reams of user data, but most people don’t understand how the system works. Now, an attack ad campaign by Signal has shone some light on the opaque surveillance dragnet. The privacy-focused messaging app tried to buy “multi-variant targeted” ads on Instagram to show what parent company…
Student Informants and the Issue of Privacy
Mackenzi Matthews is a staff writer at the University of Illinois’s student-run newspaper, The Journal. In a new piece, she reports: The debate over the importance of privacy versus security is an old and reoccurring one. With different people in positions of power having varying stances on which is more important, it seems as if…
Massachusetts AG Presses Pharmacies About Collection and Use of Vaccine Patient Data
From the good folks at EPIC.org: The Massachusetts Attorney General, following up on a letter from EPIC and a coalition of civil society groups, wrote to major pharmacies today seeking details about their collection and use of personal data from COVID-19 vaccine recipients. The federal government is coordinating with retail pharmacies to facilitate vaccine distribution. But as EPIC and coalition partners warned last…