Remember when data was the new oil? Now it may be your DNA. Simon Erickson reports: …A fairly new company called LunaDNA may have cracked the code. Founded last year, LunaDNA began working on a community-owned approach that encrypts DNA information on a blockchain. Users could give their permission to access this [Read More…]
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an urgent Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission seeking all pending complaints. As a result of the extensive work of consumer organizations, the Commission issued a consent order against Facebook in 2011 barring the company from making any future misrepresentations about [Read More…]
Chad Marlow of the ACLU writes: Did you hear the story about the do-gooder tech company that is pushing new state “privacy” bills across the nation? The pitch by that company, Hu-manity.co — which is so effective its Oregon bill was introduced with more than 40 co-sponsors — is that [Read More…]
Christian Hetrick reports: A New Jersey data broker that collects and sells personal information about consumers told regulators that it did not knowingly possess data on minors, even as it advertised a mailing list of more than a million high school students for sale on its website. ALC Inc., a [Read More…]