1st Circuit Upholds Border Searches of Phones and Laptops
The ruling says customs officials can rummage through highly personal information even absent any reason to think their owner did something wrong.
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Facebook faces new UK class action after data harvesting scandal
Facebook is facing a second London High Court class action over allegations it failed to protect the personal details of about one million people in England and Wales, in the latest lawsuit to spring from a scandal over data harvesting.
“Party affinity” data may not be processed without the consent, Austrian court rules
The Federal Administrative Court of Austria confirmed that “party affinity” data may not be processed without the consent.
China Has Stolen 80% Of American Adults’ Personal Data, Expert Claims
Chinese technology has faced many allegations of improper use of data, and this appears to extend to the medical information of US citizens, it is claimed.
Amazon says government demands for user data spiked by 800% in 2020
That data includes shopping searches and data from its Echo, Fire, and Ring devices.
Epsilon agrees to pay $150m fine to DoJ for selling data to fraudsters
Epsilon Data Management has agreed a $150m settlement with the US DoJ to resolve a criminal charge for selling data on more than 30 million Americans to fraudsters.
Facebook to give academics access to political advertising data
Facebook will open up targeting information for more than 1.3m social issue, electoral and political ads to researchers .
This Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos
Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.
Bot Lets Hackers Easily Look Up Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers
The person selling access to the service claims it has data on 500 million Facebook users.
Facebook Gives FBI Private Messages Of Users Discussing Capitol Hill Riot
DOJ files charges against alleged rioter after the FBI raided his Facebook account, including private messages and an IP address that plotted his approximate locations.
Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Movements Without Warrant
The U.S. government is using app-generated marketing data based on the movements of millions of cellphones around the country for some forms of law enforcement.
Israel’s data-for-vaccines deal with Pfizer raises privacy concerns
Health Ministry releases details of agreement with coronavirus vaccine producer, but redacted document doesn’t address all questions, including some ethical worries.