Adam Schwartz of EFF writes: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-choice sheriffs and bounty hunters will try to investigate and punish abortion seekers based on their internet browsing, private messaging, and phone app location data. Legislators must act now to protect this personal data. Reproductive justice requires data privacy. That’s why EFF urges California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign A.B….
AU: Sydney school’s use of fingerprint scanners in toilets an invasion of privacy, expert says
Mostafa Rachwani A Sydney high school’s decision to install fingerprint scanners at the entrance to toilets to track student movements and prevent vandalism has been criticised as “unreasonable and disproportionate” by a privacy expert. Moorebank high school moved to install the scanners in term three, with the school’s principal, Vally Grego, telling parents it was a measure…
ANALYSIS: Can New York Mandate Speed Governors on New Cars?
Eve Kessler reports: Advocates are cheering a first-in-the-nation New York bill that would mandate speed-limiting technology in new cars and would limit large passenger vehicles that have blind spots that endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. But does New York even have the authority to regulate cars this way? And would the law be doomed to…
Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law
Weronika Strzyżyńska reports: The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive crackdown on women’s dress. The secretary of Iran’s Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, Mohammad…