Government Surveillance
Legislators pushing a Patriot Act, but for human trafficking in the wake of FOSTA | Tech Dirt
Corporate Surveillance
Commerce Department Seeks Comments on Outcome-Based Privacy Protections | NextGov
NTIA Seeks Comment on New Approach to Consumer Data Privacy | U.S. Dept. of Commerce
U.S. seeks input on privacy rules to protect consumer data | Reuters
Just don’t call it privacy | The New York Times
Our Data Is Out There – And We Aren’t Doing Much To Protect It | WPTV.com (Palm Beach)
US privacy law is on the horizon. Here’s how tech companies want to shape it | C|Net
A seemingly small change to Chrome stirs big controversy | Wired
Biometric Privacy
Delta to use facial recognition in Atlanta’s international terminal | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
How students learned to stop worrying – and love being spied upon | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Right to Be Forgotten
GDPR/Right to be Forgotten Being Used To Try To Disappear Public US Court Docket | TechDirt
Encryption
Cat-and-mouse game: Customers demand cybersecurity, law enforcement wants easier access to evidence | ABA Journal
Law and Regulation
Congress wants to hear from everyone but consumers in a hearing on consumer privacy | Los Angeles Times
Fight looms over national privacy law | The Hill
EFF opposes industry efforts to have Congress roll back state privacy protections | EFF
Google releases framework to guide data privacy legislation | The Hill
California Governor Approves Revisions to Consumer Privacy Act | National Law Review
This Week in Data Breaches
Uber will pay $148 million in connection to a 2016 data breach and cover-up | CNBC
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