Ashley Bruce Trehan and Kyle D. Black of Buchanan Ingersoll-Rooney write: As the United States continues to adjust to COVID-19, more businesses are utilizing biometric data to provide a safe environment for their customers and employees. But the unauthorized use of biometric data can lead to class action lawsuits from customers and employees. In one…
Category: U.S.
The DEA Wants Access To 131 Million Prescription Records
Joe Cadillic writes about an issue that I have been blogging about for more than a decade now: government surveillance of our pharmacy records and prescriptions. Joe writes: Back in 2017 I reported on how the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Prescription Monitoring Program was tracking 60 percent of Americans personal information and prescriptions. But now an article in Filter Mag…
How the NYPD obtains people’s personal data with no oversight
Craig McCarthy reports: The NYPD has used tens of thousands of questionable subpoenas over the last decade to intimidate private companies into handing over the personal information of cops and civilians alike — all with no oversight from the city or the courts, The Post has found. While the vast majority of subpoenas in New…
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Joseph Cox reports: The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide….