… Crockford notes that the Massachusetts House of Representatives last week unanimously passed a consumer privacy bill that, if enacted as written, would impose strong enforcement provisions, and urged other states to follow, especially with a private right of action that lets aggrieved users sue. “S…
… European regulators and privacy advocates in the US questioned its legality as early as 2011, and there were concerns over whether users had meaningfully consented to the creation of biometric data. …
… Security Concerns As Rednote goes global, the company is no doubt looking to Chinese predecessors like WeChat and TikTok for ideas about how to navigate the minefield of content moderation and data privacy. …
… Finally, we detailed Russia’s effort to create a local competitor to Starlink satellite internet service—with all the privacy and security concerns that entails. And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… The transition comes at the same time as the advent of new cryptographic tricks—namely, “zero-knowledge proofs”—that enable computers to manipulate and verify the integrity of encrypted data without seeing its contents. “These pieces kind of fall into place to leave us with a moment of technologica… …
… 33 Data Brokers Admitted They Sell Americans’ Data to China, Russia, and Iran The California Privacy Protection Agency updated its data broker registry on Tuesday with a concerning revelation: At least 33 data brokers self-reported selling or sharing Californians’ personal information with entities… …
… There is no ad-tracking layer, and Chunkr’s listing in Apple’s App Store contains a privacy disclosure that states the developer does not collect any data from the app. …
The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Fight for the Future, Access Now, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is demanding Meta kill the feature before launch, after internal documents surfaced showing the company hoped to use the curr… …
… But on the flip side, there are major privacy concerns to sharing your health data without protections.” Agrawal is concerned about users uploading sensitive data to chatbots since these commonly used AI tools are not compliant with HIPAA protections, the landmark US law that guards patients from h… …
… Many states require police to get a warrant before accessing such data, and more are folding biometric protections into their general consumer-privacy laws each year, says Eric Null, director of the Privacy and Data Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “But consumer-facing companies …
