Tag: privacy news

Immigrants on life under US government’s eye; hidden role of facial recognition in many arrests; and a secret surveillance program collects Americans’ money-transfer data.

Declassified documents reveal secret CIA program collecting American data; DHS deploying dystopian robot dogs to surveil US-Mexico border; and EARN IT Act passes Senate Judiciary Committee.

The pandemic has thrown much of the world into a privacy nightmare, students sue ProctorU for Biometrics Violations, and how to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you.

In this week’s privacy news: a court victory for data privacy, California’s sweeping new privacy law, how social media deceives by design, student privacy, lost Facebook data, data breaches galore, plus more.