Joe Lancaster writes: One of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders designated “certain international cartels” as “foreign terrorist organizations,” a classification that according to the State Department “play[s] a critical role in our fight against terrorism and [is] an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.” To that end,…
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
Lucas Ropek reports: The owner of a data brokerage business recently put out a creepy-ass video in which he bragged about the degree to which his industry could collect and analyze data on the habits of billions of people. In 2019, the data broker Epsilon was acquired by French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe. Then, earlier this month,…
States Ramp Up Car Privacy Enforcement Using Tricks Old and New
Tonya Riley and Cassandre Coyer report: Carmakers are in the crosshairs of state enforcers, with California becoming the latest to target the industry’s data practices. The California Privacy Protection Agency announced on Wednesday an enforcement action and settlement accusing American Honda Motor Co. Inc. of violating state privacy law. Honda required consumers to provide excessive personal information for privacy…
New Book: ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove recently announced the publication of his new book, On Privacy and Technology. Can privacy law keep up with new digital technologies such as AI? The book is a short accessible overview of my thinking about privacy for the past 25 years. I tried my best to make…