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AP reports: A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms. During his second day of testimony, Arturo Béjar said Meta consistently prioritized profits over safety in designing...
Jude Joffe-Block reports: Maryland has passed some of the strictest data privacy provisions in the country. But privacy and civil rights advocates say commercial data brokers are violating state law by collecting and selling Marylanders’ geolocation data, as well as selling information to federal immigration authorities. A coalition of privacy and civil rights groups filed a consumer...
Zack Whittaker reports: Comcast has rolled out a new motion-sensing technology to its latest home routers, allowing homeowners to receive notifications about activity detected inside their house while they are away. The free feature, called Wi-Fi Motion, turns newer Xfinity gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the Wi-Fi signal of the wireless network and...
Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: Senate Bill (SB) 1130, legislation that would establish criminal penalties for certain uses of wearable recording devices, continues to move through the California legislature. I’ve had the honor of discussing this measure with staff of the bill’s sponsor, California State Senator Eloise Gómez Reyes, and anticipate there will be...
Chad Van Alstin reports: Mental health provider chain LifeStance Health has agreed to a $3 million settlement to put to rest a 2023 class action lawsuit, stemming from its use of third-party tracking technologies on its website. According to the complaint, between March 2020 and April 2023 the publicly traded, for-profit mental health services company...
GovTech reports: The Policing Project at the NYU School of Law has evaluated the policies governing automated license plate readers in all 50 states. Gunshot detection. Drones. Bodycams. License plate readers. These technologies are in broad use among the 18,000 public safety agencies in the U.S. But some of the companies behind them are facing new...
Emily Pofahl reports: New court filings are shedding light on how federal agents used facial recognition technology to create visual files of protestors during Operation Metro Surge. What we know: Court documents filed Thursday in the case of Isaac Sant show undercover federal agents were monitoring churches, unions and activists involved in organizing protests. The filings...
by Jennifer D. Oliva, Indiana University You might assume that what you tell a doctor stays between you, your physician and perhaps your insurer. But the reality is more complicated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal privacy law that governs health information and is commonly known as HIPAA, is narrower than its...
Andy Greenberg, On a rainy New York morning earlier this week, a WIRED reporter strapped to his wrist a lavender and pink plastic child’s smartwatch and headed to work. As he approached his nearby subway station to commute to WIRED’s office, he texted Vangelis Stykas, the Greek security researcher who had shipped him the watch via Amazon, to...
Josh Kovensky reports: Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents to observe a climate group and into churches, and obtained financial records for labor unions, as they sought to crack down on mass protests in Minneapolis following the Trump administration’s surge of federal officers into the city, attorneys alleged in a...
