Suzanne Smalley reports: Lawmakers across party lines on Tuesday grilled 23andMe executives throughout a hearing probing the privacy implications of the company’s sale as well as what many lawmakers portrayed as the existing vulnerability of the sensitive genetic data the company holds. Since the company’s March bankruptcy filing, 1.9 million of the company’s 15 million…
Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit
A good-news press release from EFF, today: NEW YORK–In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge today granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) disclosure of records to DOGE and its agents. Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found that…
The Decision That Murdered Privacy
There are only two updates to PogoWasRight.org this morning. The first, a link to testimony by Bruce Schneier, offers a chilling indictment about the terrible harm DOGE has already done to each and every one of us. This second one, by Scott Greenfield, indicts the Supreme Court for its role in now giving DOGE permission…
Hearing on the Federal Government and AI
Bruce Schneier writes: On Thursday I testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing titled “The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The other speakers mostly talked about how cool AI was—and sometimes about how cool their own company was—but I was asked by the Democrats to specifically…