Privacy and the Pandemic
Racial and Immigrant Justice Groups Sue Government for Records of COVID-19 Data Surveillance [PDF press release] | Just Futures Law
Opinion: How [COVID] Data Collection is Hurting Bay Area’s LGBTQ+ Community | The Mercury News
Privacy at Risk in Tech-Infused Post-COVID-19 Workplace | Global Times
Minors’ and Students’ Privacy
School District Violates Own Policy with Hidden Surveillance Cameras [Madison, WI] | Isthmus
Instead of Surveillance, Try an Ethic of Care | Inside Higher Ed
YouTube Will Begin Letting Underage Users Onto Its Flagship Platform — With Parental Supervision | Tubefilter
COVID on Campus: The Pandemic’s Impact on Student and Faculty Speech Rights | Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Government Surveillance
Police Camera Surveillance Threatens First Amendment Interests | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Cedar Rapids [IA] Police Ask Residents to Register Home Surveillance, Doorbell Cams to Help Catch Crime | KCRG ABC News
Perkasie [PA] Police Ask Public to Register Personal Surveillance Cameras with Department | KYW Newsradio
Watchdog Reviews Complaint About FBI Surveillance Warrant | AP/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Laws, Regulations, and Legislation
Virginia Considers New Data Privacy Legislation | FindBiometrics
Biometric Privacy
US Govt Facial Recognition Stakeholders Must Address Public Knowledge Gap, Case Study Shows | BiometricUpdate.com
Francisco Partners is Acquiring MyHeritage, Sources Say for $600M | TechCrunch
Snap Surveillance Acquired by SenSen Networks | SecurityInfoWatch.com
Encryption
Support Encryption for Everybody or Place Your Faith in Government Snoops | Reason
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
DFS [Department of Financial Services] Warning of Widespread Data Breach | JDSupra
Why Was SolarWinds So Vulnerable to a Hack? | The New York Times
Clubhouse Confirms Data Spillage of its Audio Streams | BBC
Social Security Numbers Among Data Threatened in Kroger Data Breach | CBS Denver
Kroger Data Breach Highlights Urgent Need to Replace Legacy, End-of-Life Tools | TechRepublic
Students’ Information Compromised by Data Breach at Harvard Business School | The Harvard Crimson
Parents Alerted to NuseryCam Security Breach [in the U.K.] | BBC News
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