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10 Holiday Tech Gifts With Hidden Privacy Problems
Tech companies are making a list and checking it twice, and if you’re not careful with your holiday gift giving, your friends and family will be on it.
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Is Every Website That Plays Videos Breaking An ’80s Privacy Law?
In 1987, Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Bork was an extreme, hard-line conservative whose views included the idea that Roe v. Wade should be overturned because he believed there was no constitutional right to privacy whatsoever. In response, a Washington, DC video store leaked a list of his movie rentals, which…
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Biden Executive Order Says They’ll Be More Careful When They Use European Data for Spy Stuff
President Biden signed an executive order placing new restrictions on how U.S. intelligence agencies harness data as it flows between the U.S. and the E.U., the White House announced Friday. The order creates a new framework to comply with European privacy rules.
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Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Newly Revealed Police Software Surveilling Americans’ Movements
California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate a Virginia-based company revealed by the Associated Press to provide law enforcement agencies across the U.S. with access to mobile phone tracking technology capable of mapping people’s movements “months back in time.”