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FTC Explores Rules Cracking Down on Commercial Surveillance and Lax Data Security Practices | Federal Trade Commission
by Federal Trade Commission
August 15, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data…
How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship | WIRED
by Matt Burgess
August 10, 2022
For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to…
A Cyberattack Illuminates the Shaky State of Student Privacy | The New York Times
by Natasha Singer
August 10, 2022
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data…
Job Opportunity: Senior Associate, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
by Georgetown Law
July 26, 2022
The Center on Privacy & Technology seeks a Senior Associate to lead the Center’s research and advocacy in the area…
Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review
by Tate Ryan-Mosley and Sam Richards
July 7, 2022
When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in…
The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World | Lawfare
by Jolynn Dellinger and Stephanie Pell
June 15, 2022
The year is 2023. It’s been one year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson…
Facial Recognition Is Out of Control in India
by Agnee Ghosh
June 15, 2022
In May 2021, during India’s second wave of COVID-19, SQ Masood and his father-in-law were returning home on his silver-coloured…
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics | Vice
by Joseph Cox
May 5, 2022
A location data firm is selling information related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities, showing…
Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You | The Markup
by Surya Mattu and Colin Lecher
April 28, 2022
For millions of prospective college students, applying online for federal financial aid has also meant sharing personal data with Facebook,…