Juan Miguel and Daniel Schwarz of the NYCLU write: To protect students, New York State adopted a law in 2020 placing a moratorium on the use of invasive, biased, privacy-destroying biometric surveillance in schools. The moratorium cannot be lifted until the New York State Education Department (NYSED) issues a report on the [Read More…]
This press release is pretty significant: In its judgement of June 27 2022, the Council of State confirms the 35 million euro penalty imposed by the CNIL on Amazon in 2020. The company deposited cookies on users’ computers without prior consent or satisfactory information. The CNIL decision of 7 December [Read More…]
The announcement appeared on the Telegram channel of a group calling themself “SiegedSec:” TIME FOR SOME 1337 H4CKTIVISM!!! (4 the record, we will still do blackhat stuff 😉 Like many, we are also pro-choice, one shouldn’t be denied access to abortion. As added pressure to the U.S government, we have [Read More…]
By Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry Today’s decision deprives millions of people of a fundamental right, and also underscores the importance of fair and meaningful protections for data privacy. Everyone deserves to have strong controls over the collection and use of information they necessarily leave behind as they go about [Read More…]