Holly Barker reports: A California man challenging a pair of GPS tracking warrants that he claimed rested on an unconstitutional search of Nevada’s prescription monitoring program database lost his Ninth Circuit appeal after the court said he had no legitimate expectation of privacy in his records. Pointing to the government’s “long-standing and pervasive regulation of…
Category: U.S.
‘No privacy’: Is the Georgia DMV allowed to use your ID for this?
Ciara Cummings reports: Going to the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles and getting your picture taken is expected, but the agency is also keeping that photo in a facial recognition system. According to the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS), it does so to help law enforcement in cases of specific violent crimes. However, some state lawmakers were…
Happy New Year 2024
I found myself hard-pressed this year to figure out what to say about privacy in 2024. Of course, I wish you all a happy and healthy new year, but what do we say about privacy in 2024? Have we all become so accustomed to privacy breaches and data breaches by now that we will just…
Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.
Kashmir Hill reports: After almost 10 years of marriage, Christine Dowdall wanted out. Her husband was no longer the charming man she had fallen in love with. He had become narcissistic, abusive and unfaithful, she said. After one of their fights turned violent in September 2022, Ms. Dowdall, a real estate agent, fled their home…