The Supreme Court’s decision issued this week upholding a Texas law requiring age verification to access pornography online has predictably drawn a lot of criticism from civil liberties and privacy advocates. Here’s EFF’s take on its impact, written by Aaron Mackey, Lisa Femia, and Jason Kelley: Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct…
New Jersey Issues Draft Privacy Regulations: The New
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: New Jersey recently released draft privacy regulations, and there is a lot to unpack and process. In this three-part series, I will break down the regulations Part 1: The New Personal data: Scraping is carved out of “publicly available data” and constitutes personal data. Sale: Sharing with affiliates is…
Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report
Tim Starks reports: A hacker working on behalf of the Sinaloa drug cartel infiltrated cameras and phones to track an FBI official in Mexico investigating the drug lord El Chapo, then used data from that surveillance to kill and intimidate potential sources and witnesses the agent was meeting with, a Justice Department watchdog report revealed….
Germany Wants Apple, Google to Remove DeepSeek From Their App Stores
PC Mag reports: Apple and Google have been asked to consider banning the artificial intelligence chatbot app DeepSeek from their respective app stores in Germany. Berlin’s data protection commissioner, Meike Kamp, says the app’s user privacy rules violate Germany’s data protection laws. “The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is illegal,” she says….