Ayanna Alexander reports: …. The new coronavirus crisis is still evolving and the federal government is trying to keep up by waiving certain federal privacy rules, in particular under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. But developers of mobile apps and websites aimed at fighting the virus still have [Read More…]
From The Wire Report: As reports emerge of countries around the world using cellphone location data to help map out the spread of COVID-19, experts say there are a number of ways in which provinces or the federal government could do the same. There is nothing standing in the way [Read More…]
Alex Hern reports: Privacy campaigners have warned that a UK government plan to use mobile phone data to track the success of the social distancing policy needs to be carried out with “radical transparency” because of the authoritarian possibilities. The Guardian reported on Thursday that BT and O2 have talked to the [Read More…]
Wendy Davis reports: A Massachusetts mother of two young children is suing Google for allegedly tracking her children’s YouTube viewing habits for ad purposes. Google “engaged in unfair acts … by collecting personal information, such as persistent identifiers, from viewers it knew were children under the age of thirteen, without [Read More…]