AP reports: Florida lawmakers advanced a proposal Thursday that would bar life insurers from using information from commercially available genetic tests to deny policies or set premiums based on markers that might be discovered through DNA home kits. The effort comes amid the booming popularity of heavily marketed genetic testing [Read More…]
Tim Cushing writes: Thanks to a FOIA request by Open the Government policy analyst Freddy Martinez, we now know someone’s trying to sell cops cameras they can hide in… gravestones? A surveillance vendor that works with U.S. government agencies, such as the FBI, DEA, and ICE, is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, [Read More…]
Jack Loughran reports: Google has announced it will end support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser as part of measures designed to improve user privacy. Third-party cookies are typically used by advertisers to track where users go on the web so they can target ads at them based on [Read More…]
Karl Bode reports: Passed in May of 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was supposed to usher in a new age of consumer privacy transparency and protection across Europe. Instead, researchers say companies have been tap dancing around the law with little to no meaningful enforcement by European Union [Read More…]