UPDATE: House is set to hold a secret session — first of its kind since 2008 & fourth time ever since the 1800s — to hone a surveillance bill this wk. Ironic they’ll discuss spying on Americans under cover of a closed-door session. This is concerning procedurally & substantively.
UPDATE: House is set to hold a secret session — first of its kind since 2008 & fourth time ever since the 1800s — to hone a surveillance bill this wk. Ironic they’ll discuss spying on Americans under cover of a closed-door session. This is concerning procedurally & substantively.
Lots of talk about “Section 702 reauthorization” — for those that don’t know what that means, here’s a thread on why this is important for civil rights & liberties: 1/ fisareform.org
THREAD: The Senate Commerce Committee will vote tomorrow on #KOSA and n ew changes make this already dangerous bill EVEN WORSE.
Let's be crystal clear: KOSA will make kids less safe, not more safe, while endangering LGBTQ rights & free expression. stopkosa.com
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act (FANFSA) is essential legislation which should pass this Congress. It would ban law enforcement agencies from buying personal info from data brokers, circumventing constitutional safeguards & our civil liberties. judiciary.house.gov/committee-acti…
This new era of social media co’s doing less & less, I’ve named ‘Big Tech Minimalism’. Read my piece @techpolicypress on why the Missouri v. Biden ruling is bad for free speech & democracy, the latest cover for platforms to do less ahead of 2024: techpolicy.press/the-era-of-big…
Takeaways from the @FTC policy statement on #biometric information. In short: anything that might become biometric information is sensitive, so treat it that way.
iapp.org/news/a/a-view-…
"A Midwest antiabortion group used cellphone #LocationData to target online content to visitors of certain Planned Parenthood clinics, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by @WSJ:"
wsj.com/articles/antia…
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Education officials in Wisconsin once held up a dropout prediction algorithm as a key tool in their fight against the state’s graduation gap.
But the tool may be incorrectly and negatively influencing how educators perceive students, we found.
themarkup.org/machine-learni…
Tech lobbyists are working to water down state privacy laws, leaving consumers with inadequate privacy protection. Read the new op-ed by Matt Schwartz, policy analyst at CR, in @TheWellNews: thewellnews.com/opinions/why-a…
Judge grants Kochava's motion to dismiss the FTC's complaint re location tracking with leave to amend. (Also dismisses for good Kochava's silly preemptive suit.)
Judge grants Kochava's motion to dismiss the FTC's complaint re location tracking with leave to amend. (Also dismisses for good Kochava's silly preemptive suit.)
“current law prohibits distribution of CSAM, & since 2008, providers have faced large fines if they fail to report CSAM after receiving knowledge of its presence on their platforms.”
Look up your rep via link below & tell them
vote NO on the STOP CSAM Act.
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This time last year the Supreme Court's calamitous Dobbs decision was leaked, and I stood with some of the other elected leaders here to put the anti-choice cabal on notice: Washington state will not go back. #walegmedium.com/wagovernor/ins…
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