So okay, this is definitely NOT okay from this blogger’s perspective. Breitbart reports: A senior MEP within the European Parliament has accused the EU of trying to bring in “mass surveillance” with a new law controlling private online chats. Dr Nicolaus Fest MEP, the leader of the populist Alternative für Deutschland party within the European Parliament,…
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Jennifer Gollan of ProPublica reports: Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which may allow law enforcement to prosecute those who use the medications to end their pregnancies, a ProPublica analysis has found. Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on…
Does the European Parliament use Facial Recognition Technology?
Earlier this week, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) wrote: ICCL has obtained 32 documents from the European Parliament about its use of CCTV cameras. We have learned that the European Parliament, which opposes facial recognition technology (FRT), had itself tendered for facial recognition capable cameras in 2015. The European Parliament’s tender also required…
Sen. Brown’s bill would make Indiana 6th state with data privacy law
Brett Stover reports: State Sen. Liz Brown might not have been the lawmaker most likely to introduce a major data privacy bill. In fact, the Fort Wayne Republican even called herself “the least tech person” during an interview last week. But Brown’s consumer data privacy proposal, Senate Bill 5, isn’t just one of the hundreds of…