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Your #Body Is Betraying Your #Right to #Privacy
Attachment to smart devices and #biometric #surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.
Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
#Walmart Wins #Patents To Give #Algorithms More Sway Over #Prices
Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate #pricing decisions, "pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a debate over the use of algorithms to adjust product costs,"
#surveillance #privacy #patent
Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, "pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a debate over the use of algorithms to adjust product costs," reports the Financial Times. From the report: In January Walmart obtained a U.S. ...
(yro.slashdot.org)
@evacide A new twist on the old IT reality - no one wants to be the one responsible for building the database, but once you do, everyone will find a way to misuse it.
Federal Right To #Privacy Act
The Solution: A Comprehensive Privacy Bill
The bill imposes hard limits on #surveillance , hidden collection, #coercive “consent,” brokered data trafficking, and government circumvention of what should be a lawful process balancing #freedom with evidence of wrongdoing. It restores rule-based protections people can understand and courts can enforce.
#AB1043 ’s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone
EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and #unconstitutional barriers for adults and young people to access information and express themselves online…And none of the available #ageVerification options are perfect in terms of protecting private information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
Legislators do not need to sacrifice their constituents' First Amendment rights and privacy to make a safer internet, but they can address many of the harms these proposals seek to mitigate.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
#Copyright Bullying vs. #Religious #Freedom
The government should not help a religious institution to punish or deter members from inquiring about their faith. Yet, once again, the #WatchTower #Bible and Tract Society is trying to use flimsy copyright claims to exploit the special legal tools available to copyright owners in order to unmask #anonymous online speakers.
#privacy #religion #JehovahsWitness
The government should not help a religious institution to punish or deter members from inquiring about their faith. Yet, once again, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is trying to use flimsy copyright claims to exploit the special legal tools available to copyright owners in order to unmask...
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
#DHS Ousts #CBP #Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of #Homeland #Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
#ice
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
From #Iran to #Ukraine ,everyone's trying to #hack #security #cameras
For decades, #satellites , #drones , & human spotters have all been part of war’s #surveillance & #reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, Internet-connected consumer devices, however, #militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a city street, pointed at potential bombing targets
#intelligence #privacy
Research shows apparent Iranian state hackers trying to hijack consumer-grade cameras.
Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
#System76 Comments On Recent #AgeVerification Laws
System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in #California , #Colorado , and #NewYork that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine #privacy and #freedom more than they protect minors.
In a blog post on Thursday, System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized new state laws in California, Colorado, and New York that would require operating systems to verify users' ages and expose that information to apps, arguing the rules are easy for kids to bypass and ultimately undermine privacy and fre...
(tech.slashdot.org)
X Is Drowning in #Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on #Iran
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
#Twitter
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
#Trump Administration Moves to Allow #Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to #LawEnforcement Files
#privacy #maga
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cia-law-enforcement-records-privacy-intelligence-community
