Thomas Germain reports: For all of Apple’s talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones do have a privacy setting that is supposed to turn off that tracking. According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with…
Study: Schools’ social media posts may be compromising student privacy
by American Educational Research Association U.S. schools and school districts have shared an estimated 4.9 million posts that include identifiable images of students on public Facebook pages, unintentionally putting student privacy at risk, according to a new study. Around 726,000 of these posts are thought to identify one or more students by their first and…
Internet Impact Brief: Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill 2022
Authors: Neeti Biyani, Pranav Bhaskar Tiwari, Akriti Bopanna, Internet Society Prateek Waghre, Anushka Jain, Internet Freedom Foundation Contributors: Rajnesh D. Singh, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Carl Gahnberg, Ryan Polk, Susannah Gray, Internet Society Abstract In September 2022, the Government of India’s Department of Telecommunications released a draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 for public consultation….
Abortion rights on state ballots: here are the results so far
Sharon Bernstein reports: Voters in five states considered abortion-related ballot measures on Tuesday, initiatives that have taken on new urgency since the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide. Here are the results as Reuters reports: Voters in the battleground state of Michigan backed a ballot initiative declaring…