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May 21, 2021

Senators roll out bipartisan data privacy bill

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is back with a bill to protect consumer data privacy when collected by large tech platforms like Facebook and Google.

May 20, 2021

Amazon extends moratorium on police use of facial recognition software

Amazon.com is extending until further notice a moratorium it imposed last year on police use of its facial recognition software.

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May 18, 2021

Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals

A letter obtained by Motherboard discusses internet browsing, location, and other forms of data.

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May 18, 2021

Businesses fall into transatlantic privacy hole

Companies have begun to face costly problems abroad while they wait a new privacy deal.

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May 17, 2021

Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows

The company lost a bid to block a EU privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S.

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May 17, 2021

Biden issues the Executive Order on Cybersecurity

The purpose of the Order is to improve the security of commercial software, including by establishing baseline security requirements based on industry best practices.

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May 14, 2021

Negotiations fail, threat actors dump more data from Metropolitan Police D.C.

Hackers stole more than 250 GB of data from Metropolitan Police D.C. Now they are threating to dump the data in public as negotiations fail.

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May 11, 2021

Trump Justice Department seized journalists’ phone records

The action grew out of a leak investigation surrounding reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

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May 3, 2021

North Carolina school district buys face biometrics to monitor students and staff

A facial recognition surveillance system from Verkada has been purchased in North Caroline by a rural school district in northwest of Charlotte.

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May 3, 2021

Google and Apple are the world’s biggest privacy regulators

Both companies are changing how they allow others to collect and use data from their billions of online users.

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April 29, 2021

States Are Moving on Privacy Bills. Over 4 in 5 Voters Want Congress to Prioritize Protection of Online Data

Public support for Congress to pass a national standard is holding strong, with 83 percent of voters saying it should be a “top” or “important, but lower” congressional priority this year.

April 29, 2021

Between a rock and a hard place: U.S. federal privacy law

President Biden may soon announce an Executive Order that will include mandatory breach notification for software vendors that sell to the federal government.

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