How the On-Demand Reshaped Cities
From CityLab: The now-given fact that all one’s online activities are tracked, absorbed and monitored in order to improve technology offerings, produce “relevant” advertising and fuel a data economy take …
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
From Gizmodo: Even as its creeping objective of ensuring an ever-expanding network of home security devices eventually becomes indispensable to daily police work, Ring promised its customers would always have …
ACLU Sues Homeland Security Over ‘Stingray’ Cell Phone Surveillance
From TechCrunch: One of the largest civil liberties groups in the U.S. is suing two Homeland Security agencies for failing to turn over documents it requested as part of a …
Google Urges FTC To Weaken Children’s Privacy Rules
From Media Post (via infoDOCKET): Google is asking the Federal Trade Commission to revise children’s privacy rules in ways that would make it easier for YouTube to collect data from …
Canada: “Privacy Law Reform: A Pathway to Respecting Rights and Restoring Trust in Government and the Digital Economy” (Office of the Privacy Commissioner Annual Report to Parliament)
From the Commissioners Message: For several years, my predecessors and I have been calling for fundamental reform of Canada’s federal private and public sector privacy laws. In the last year, …
Report: Facebook Intends to Implement End-to-End Encryption Despite DOJ Pressure
From Cyberscoop: Facebook is not giving in to Department of Justice demands on weakening encryption, according to a new letter the company sent to U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and acting Secretary …
U.S. DOJ to Focus on Zero-Trust, Identity Pilots in 2020
From FedScoop: The Department of Justice is focusing on zero trust and identity and access management pilots in fiscal 2020 as it adapts its security posture to the cloud and …
New Poll Reveals 7 in 10 People Want Governments to Regulate Big Tech Over Personal Data Fears
From Amnesty International: Seven in ten people (73%) want governments to do more to regulate Big Tech, with a clear majority (71%) worried about how tech companies collect and use …