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- Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately...
> Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately confusing opinion, the court upheld the warrant, finding the police relied on it in good faith. EFF filed two amicus briefs and was heavily involved in the case.
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> Keyword warrants rely on the fact that it is virtually impossible to navigate the modern Internet without entering search queries into a search engine. By some accounts, there are over 1.15 billion websites, and tens of billions of webpages. Google Search processes as many as 100,000 queries every second. Many users have come to rely on search engines to such a degree that they routinely search for the answers to sensitive or unflattering questions that they might never feel comfortable asking a human confidant, even friends, family members, doctors, or clergy. Over the course of months and years, there is little about a user’s life that will not be reflected in their search keywords, from the mundane to the most intimate. The result is a vast record of some of users’ most private and personal thoughts, opinions, and associations.
Banks have started collecting my voice-print without consent
When I call my bank, the greeting now says my voice will be recorded for verification purposes. There is no opt-out.
I remain silent and refuse to speak to the bot now. I sometimes need to push buttons to get a human. The question is-- are they also recording my chatter with the human in order to collect a #voiceprint?
What’s the counter measure? Should we all use a voice disquising tool to sound like Abraham Lincoln or Elvis?
Why do airlines share my itinerary with my bank?
cross-posted from: https://links.hackliberty.org/post/125466
> My credit card issuer apparently never gets to know what I purchased at stores, cafes, & restaurants -- and rightfully so. The statement just shows the shop name, location, and amount. > > Exceptionally, if I purchase airfare the bank statement reveals disclosures: > * airline who sold the ticket > * carrier > * passenger name > * ticket number > * city pairs > > So that’s a disturbing over-share. In some cases the airline is a European flag carrier, so IIUC the GDPR applies, correct? Doesn’t this violate the data minimization principle? > > Airlines no longer accept cash, which is also quite disturbing (and illegal in jurisdictions where legal tender must be accepted when presented for PoS transactions). > > Has anyone switched to using a travel agent just to be able to pay cash for airfare?
UPDATE
A relatively convincing theory has been suggested in this other cross-posted community:
https://links.hackliberty.org/comment/414338
Apparently it’s because credit cards offer travel insurance & airlines have incentive to have another insurer involved. Would be useful if this were documented somewhere in a less refutable form.
- Montana’s New Genetic Privacy Law Caps Off Ten Years of Innovative State Privacy Protections
Montana’s success in passing mostly reasonable privacy laws shows that concerns about privacy easily cut across political lines. While we wait for the federal government to pass any meaningful comprehensive privacy laws, states should look to Montana as a model for innovative ways to protect their o...
- US watchdog to announce plans to regulate 'surveillance industry'
The top U.S. agency for consumer financial protection will announce plans at the White House on Tuesday to regulate companies that track and sell people's personal data, part of the Biden administration's widening scrutiny of that industry's privacy practices, officials said.
- The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids”
KOSA is fundamentally a censorship bill. Politicians are justifying it by harping on something we all know—that there’s content online that’s inappropriate for kids. But instead of letting tricky questions about what online content is appropriate at what age be decided by parents and families, polit...
- Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit
A U.S. judge rejected Google's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of millions of people by secretly tracking their internet use.
- California agency probes automakers' data privacy practices
A California state agency on Monday said it is reviewing the privacy practices of automakers and vehicle technology companies amid concerns about the growing volume of data collected by cars.
- The White House Acknowledges the Pressure on Section 702, But Much More Reform is Needed
After months of continued public confirmation that Americans’ privacy is being violated by surveillance under Section 702, and widespread criticism from civil society, activists, surveillance-skeptical bipartisan congressional committees, and even the overly timid Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversig...
- FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
- This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal
Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement using license plate databases.
- FTC probes OpenAI's ChatGPT for consumer law violations
That bot ain't ruining people's reputation or trampling their privacy, right? Right?
The governments took their time but slowly they see the possible privacy voilations.
Section of the article: >America's Federal Trade Commission has started looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT is breaking consumer protection laws by causing reputational or privacy damage. Claims to that effect were made last month in private civil litigation when a radio host in the state of Georgia sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT defamed him and damaged his reputation by falsely associating his name with a criminal issue.
The FTC Demand of Investigation [PDF]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/67a7081c-c770-4f05-a39e-9d02117e50e8.pdf
- Biden's NSA nominee defends collecting data on foreigners and Americans alike
The Biden administration's nominee to lead the National Security Agency (NSA) says he will champion the mass surveillance power that has been used to collect data from foreigners and Americans alike and which has come under renewed scrutiny from lawmakers.
Lieutenant General Timothy D. Haugh is very clear on section 702: > "In my experience it is absolutely essential," he told lawmakers.
New York Times on Section 702: https://www.nytimes.com/article/warrantless-surveillance-section-702.html
A very "good" designed power point of section 702 by the US government: https://www.dni.gov/files/icotr/Section702-Basics-Infographic.pdf
The law text and section 702 (page 4), I had to search way too long to get to that, mostly you just find an overview by a three letter agency to justify the section. It is like the government does not want that you read it in full: https://www.congress.gov/110/plaws/publ261/PLAW-110publ261.pdf
- A Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Ban the Sale of Cell Phone Location Data
Data brokers can sell your location data to any paying customer but a Massachusetts bill designed to protect abortion-seekers would outlaw such sales.
- Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges
Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874733
> A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.