digital rights
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Amazon Says It Will Stop Giving Your Ring Footage to the Cops
Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance company, announced it would stop letting police departments request video from your doorstep in a blog post. The company has historically shared tons of footage with law enforcement, and Amazon came under fire for reportedly handing a full day’s worth of Ring footage to local authorities in March, despite the homeowner’s…
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If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
Bad news: your car is a spy. If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine that may collect personal information as sensitive as your race, weight, and sexual activity. Volkswagen’s cars reportedly know if you’re fastening your seatbelt and how hard you hit the brakes.…
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The FTC Is Rewriting the Rules of the Internet, Just in Time for the AI Sea Change
There’s a widespread misconception about whether or not federal law protects your privacy. It doesn’t, at least not explicitly. Congress has managed to squander a decade’s worth of bipartisan agreement about the internet’s data problems. In the absence of legislation, one group of regulators recently stepped in to fill the void. It’s a ragtag group…
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As the U.S. Moves Closer to a Federal Privacy Law, and I Move Closer To Losing My Mind
After years of fizzled talks and stalled negotiations on a federal data privacy bill, House and Senate committee leaders finally set aside enough of their differences to release a draft of a new bipartisan tech privacy bill this past Friday.