Privacy and the Pandemic
The Pandemic is No Excuse to Surveil Students | The Atlantic
Louisiana Continues to Share Residents’ COVID Data, but Reasons are Sketchy | HoumaToday
Government Surveillance
Court Rules NSA Phone Snooping Illegal – After 7-Year Delay | Politico
Court Overseeing National Security Surveillance Finds FBI Routinely Doesn’t Observe Rules | CNN
No Surprise the Feds Abuse Mass Surveillance | Los Angeles Daily News
Warrant Canary: What you Need to Know About this Online Privacy Warning Sign | CNET
Alaska Court Rules Police Need Aerial Surveillance Warrants | SCNow
ACLU Takes Argument Against Baltimore’s Aerial Surveillance Plane Program to Court | CBS Baltimore
Lopez Proposes Dramatic Expansion of Chicago’s Camera Surveillance Network | Chicago Sun-Times
Biometric Privacy
GAO Audit Finds Fault in CBP’s Use of Biometric Technology | Find Biometrics
New DHS Rule to Boost Biometrics Collection by 2M Each Year | MeriTalk
TSA Announces Biometric Check-In Pilot Project | Find Biometrics
Portland’s Fight Against Face Surveillance | EFF
Slouching Towards Dystopia
General who Oversaw NSA Surveillance Collection Joins Amazon’s Board of Directors | Forbes
Wilmington [North Carolina] Police Borrow M-16s, Helicopters from Department of Defense | Havelock News
Privacy Tools and Techniques
The Future of Anti-Surveillance Fashion is Bright (Because the World is Going to Hell) | Mashable
A Look at Password Security, Part V: Disk Encryption | The Mozilla Blog
GSA Data Ethics Framework | General Services Administration (USA)
“When the Federal Data Strategy team created the2020 Action Plan, they tasked the General Services Administration (GSA) with developing a Data Ethics Framework in Action to help agency employees, managers, and leaders make ethical decisions as they acquire, manage, and use data.”
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
North Shore University Health System Data Breach [Blackbaud] Affects More than 340,000 People | CBS Chicago
Warner Music Notifies Customers of Web-Skimming Attack; Personal and Financial Data Potentially Viewed by Cybercriminals | Security Boulevard
A Data Fail Left [London] Banks and Councils Exposed by a Quick Google Search | WIRED
Malware Gang Uses .NET Library to Generate Excel Docs that Bypass Security Checks | ZDNet
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