Category: News and Updates

In this week’s privacy news update: NYC Libraries lead on digital privacy, TSA ramps up use of facial recognition, a new call for student data privacy on COPPA’s anniversary, debate on a US privacy law, libraries and Facebook announce (more) data breaches, plus other privacy & surveillance news.

This week in privacy news: youth, EdTech, and privacy threats; BigTech embraces federal regulation to exclude stronger state regs; Facebook’s 1.6BN data oopsie; New Zealand extorting travelers’ passwords; and more.

Spying on our bank records for FOSTA, Big Tech wants to write the privacy rules, NTIA wants comments on consumer privacy, Delta installs facial recognition, students learn to love surveillance, Uber pays big fines for data breach, & more in this week’s privacy news.

This week’s privacy news: Surveilling journalists, monitoring activists, tracking kids online and off, facial recognition privacy woes, another credit card data breach, & more.

In this week’s news update: Balancing analytics and patron privacy; teaching facial recognition software to scan for skin tones; privacy at the movies; using facial recognition and social media to spy on students; big tech goes after privacy laws and regulations; remembering the Equifax breach, and more privacy in the news.

In this week’s privacy news: China rules with data & surveillance, beware of techcos bearing privacy law, the age of privacy nilhilism, CBP and TSA ramping up facial rec at airports, Yahoo & Mastercard reading our email, legislators consider data privacy proposals, the fight over California’s privacy law, this week’s flock of data breaches, & more.

Google, mobile apps, license plate readers, nannycams, body-scanners on your daily commute: this week’s privacy news is all about how They’ll be Watching You. Plus the data arms race, privacy by design, the privacy activists who took on Silicon Valley and won, yet another government data breach, and more.

In this week’s privacy news: Where does the data go when TSA and the airline scans your face? Plus: Facebook partners with your bank (financial data, anyone?), school websites tracking students and parents, big tech’s growing love for privacy regulation, a Supreme Court nominee’s views on privacy, & more.

This week’s privacy news: A national roadmap for digital privacy in libraries, how TSA is always watching you, your face as library card (and what could go wrong), abuse of your health & genetic privacy, & more in this week’s privacy news.