Ed Hasbrouck writes: The state of Alaska has sent us a whopper of a “the records you have requested do not exist” response to one of our attempts to find out about government oversight (or lack thereof) of the private contractor operating the national ID database created to implement the [Read More…]
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: KidGuard is a phone app that markets itself as a tool for keeping tabs on children. But it has also promoted its surveillance for other purposes and run blog posts with headlines like “How to Read Deleted Texts on Your Lover’s Phone.” A similar app, mSpy, offered [Read More…]
This is one of those “OMG self-inflicted injury!” scenarios that could happen to any of us. Joe Cadillic sends along this report by Jason Koebler: In our brief time on this rock, even the best of us are likely to own ourselves from time to time. As some of my [Read More…]
From Hunton: On May 2, 2018, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2017 (the “Annual Report”), highlighting its main accomplishments for the past year. In 2017, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The Belgian DPA [Read More…]