Laura J. Nelson reports: For nearly a year, Uber has been fighting a rule that requires all companies to share real-time data on each scooter and shared bicycle trip taken in the city of Los Angeles. The Silicon Valley giant, which owns the scooter and bike company Jump, escalated that battle on [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic has been in overdrive, trying to keep us all informed about threats to our privacy and civil liberties. I can’t even keep up with all the links he sends me during the course of a day, so I thought that this week, I would just give you a [Read More…]
Kari Lindberg and Jinshan Hong of Bloomberg report: To get permission to leave China’s coronavirus epicenter and return to his job in Hong Kong, a Chinese banker needed two things: a letter from his company and a green health code from Alipay. The man, who gave his name only as [Read More…]
Now that so many people are working from home, they are using conferencing platforms like Zoom. There’s been some talk about Zoom actually collecting what seems an invasive amount of information about people while they are connected to Zoom. EFF recently noted about Zoom: The host of a Zoom call [Read More…]