Mila Jasper reports: Customs and Border Protection is using commercially available location data from cell phones to conduct warrantless tracking of people inside the U.S. and refused to provide lawmakers with a legal justification for these activities, according to five senators. In a letter sent Friday to Homeland Security Department Inspector General [Read More…]
Lauren Kaori Gurley and Joseph Cox report: Verkada, a fast-growing Silicon Valley surveillance startup, equips its offices in downtown San Mateo, California, with its own state-of-the-art security cameras. Last year, a sales director on the company’s sales team abused their access to these cameras to take and post photos of [Read More…]
From an article in BMJ: A junior doctor who improperly accessed the medical records of three hospital patients without a legitimate reason and who then lied about it to a trust investigation has been struck off the UK medical register after failing to engage with the regulatory process. Neha Muralidharan [Read More…]
Nigam Prusty and Aditya Kalra report: Representatives of Amazon.com Inc in India have refused to appear before a parliamentary panel reviewing the country’s privacy bill, an Indian lawmaker said on Friday, an allegation the U.S. commerce giant said was a result of a misunderstanding. Read more on Reuters. h/t, Joe [Read More…]