A citizens’ coalition that works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment. #privacy #surveillance #civilrights https://oaklandprivacy.org
Governor Newsom signed the #DeleteAct which will build a universal optout for CA consumers (as of 2026) to remove their info from all 500 registered third party data brokers at once. The ad industry says this will cause consumers to lose the "data-supported services they love." This reminds us of the ad industry telling us we all loved watching soap commercials on TV. Not really. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/390057/california-governor-signs-delete-act.html?
Governor Newsom signed the #DeleteAct which will build a universal optout for CA consumers (as of 2026) to remove their info from all 500 registered third party data brokers at once. The ad industry says this will cause consumers to lose the "data-supported services they love." This reminds us of the ad industry telling us we all loved watching soap commercials on TV. Not really. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/390057/california-governor-signs-delete-act.html?
Freedom of Information Act advocates ready to unveil constitutional amendment proposal
https://talkbusiness.net/2023/10/freedom-of-information-act-advocates-ready-to-unveil-constitutional-amendment-proposal/
By next week, expect to see the first draft of a proposed constitutional amendment that would enshrine the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) into the Arkansas Constitution...
Oakland man left for dead at Santa Rita Jail, exclusive video shows
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/harrell-resurfaces-shotspotter-seeks-other-surveillance-tools-in-seattle/
... new allegations are surfacing... that deputies doctored the books to make it seem like they were checking in on him, when in fact, they did not provide any meaningful care... video... shows no one physically checked on Maurice Monk, who is seen lying half naked on his bunk, for at least three days, possibly four...
Harrell resurfaces ShotSpotter, seeks other surveillance tools in Seattle
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/harrell-resurfaces-shotspotter-seeks-other-surveillance-tools-in-seattle/
[[Mayor]] Harrell’s 2024 budget asks the City Council to consider a $1.8M surveillance pilot that would fund acoustic gunshot detection, video surveillance and ALPRs...
The city has repeatedly considered [[Shotspotter]]... but council has rejected it each time due to concerns about privacy, false confirmations, and increased surveillance in overpoliced neighborhoods...
#AI apparently cannot even imagine scenarios that invert common stereotypes showing the inanity of thinking tech can overcome human bias and prejudice when they are firmly baked into the tech. "Try as they might, the team was unable to get Black doctors and white patients in one image. Out of 150 images of HIV patients, 148 were Black and two were white. Some results put African wildlife like giraffes and elephants next to Black physicians". https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-
#Privacy is not a partisan issue. Billings, #Montana Republican Daniel Zolnikov sponsors and passes two statewide data privacy laws for Montana - one general data privacy law and a genetic data privacy law. https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/the-tiktok-ban-isnt-montanas-only-new-tech-privacy-law
Study of San Jose police shows that the vast majority of people severely injured or killed by# police are in #mentalhealth distress. And that training police in how to deal with mental illness increased the number, not decreased it. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/10/08/when-san-jose-police-confront-people-in-mental-health-crisis-why-do-they-end-up-hurting-them-so-often/?
The inevitable #genetic database security breach. "Online posts offering the data for sale in underground forums said buyers could acquire 100 profiles for $1,000 or as many as 100,000 for $100,000. One post said the person had uploaded a large database of Ashkenazi Jews. The company spokeswoman said that would include people with even 1% Jewish ancestry. Some of the posts used the handle “Golem,” a reference to a humanoid beast in Jewish folk tales". #23andMe https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/06/23andme-hacked-data/
Is Your State’s Child Safety Law Unconstitutional? Try Comprehensive Data Privacy Instead
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/your-states-child-safety-law-unconstitutional-try-comprehensive-data-privacy
...Well-written privacy legislation has the... benefit of being constitutional—unlike the flurry of laws that restrict content behind age verification requirements that courts have recently blocked...
In California, a federal court recently blocked the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code under the First Amendment...
23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/private-23andme-user-data-is-up-for-sale-after-online-scraping-spree/
...23andMe officials... confirmed that private data for some of its users is... up for sale. The cause of the leak... is data scraping, a technique that essentially reassembles large amounts of data by systematically extracting smaller amounts of information available to individual users
The crime forum post claimed the attackers obtained “13M pieces of data.”
Tinder scams
https://www.courthousenews.com/tinder-scams/
Tinder users complain people are using their profile photos to open fake accounts, despite Tinder's supposedly robust photo verification process.
Lawsuit: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ciapinska-tinder-bergen-county-nj-complaint.pdf
#tinder #lawsuit #privacy #scam #catfish #verification
Grandmother seeks answers after Taser use against 12-year-old Native American girl
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/10/06/grandmother-seeks-answers-after-taser-use-against-12-year-old-native-american-girl/
As the video begins, Eli Kuhlman and another officer are seen struggling with the... girl... Kuhlman steps back and fires his Taser at the child...
It’s not the first time Officer Kuhlman’s behavior has drawn the attention of the public...
How to defend your digital footprint with free ‘Permission Slip’ app
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/how-to-defend-your-digital-footprint-in-one-tap-with-free-permission-slip-app/
...Powered by... Consumer Reports Permission Slip will put control back in the hands of its users by acting as a liaison between the companies and consumers, ensuring their user data is erased and not sold to third parties...
[[It]]... allows consumers to manage who has their data and... request it not be sold or delete their accounts entirely with the simple tap of a button...
#privacy #databrokers
MPs and peers call for ‘immediate stop’ to live facial recognition surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/06/mps-and-peers-call-for-immediate-stop-to-live-facial-recognition-surveillance
Dozens of cross-party MPs and peers have joined a campaign for an “immediate stop” to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies... The campaign is spearheaded by the privacy advocate Big Brother Watch and is also backed by 31 groups including Liberty, Amnesty International and the Race Equality Foundation...
Trafficking software developed by celebrity Ashton Kutcher (who recently stepped down from the company after an uproar about writing a character reference for a co-worker convicted of rape) uses #Amazon #facialrecognition, which the company itself says should not be used by or sold to law enforcement. https://www.thecut.com/article/ashton-kutcher-thorn-spotlight-rekognition-surveillance.html?
CHP to pay $7M after fatal shooting of Erik Salgado
https://www.ktvu.com/news/chp-to-pay-7m-after-fatal-shooting-of-erik-salgado-in-oakland
..."This was one of most outrageous [[cop]] shooting cases I have ever seen..." Chanin said in a statement. "All of the CHP officers involved refused to cooperate with the OPD investigation at the scene and left in a car together, thereby violating the most basic rule that officers at an [[cop]] shooting should be segregated until they give a full statement to the investigating agency."
#CHP #OPD #murder #lawsuit
Documents reveal San Rafael cop had previous credibility issues
https://pacificsun.com/documents-reveal-san-rafael-cop-had-previous-credibility-issues/
The Marin County DA knew that... officer Brandon Nail had credibility issues long before he beat and bloodied a local gardener during questioning about an open container of beer.
The files were released last week, after a Marin County judge ordered San Rafael to disclose the records in response to three lawsuits that sought to obtain the information under the CA PRA
The anti-abortion pill judge is back — with an alarming new target: free speech law?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/free-speech-dobbs-abortion-kacsmaryk-rcna118243
...What courts should do, Kacsmaryk wrote, was to copy Dobbs’ historical model in other contexts... Kacsmaryk’s reading of history and tradition suggested that the government had always had the power to “censure licentiousness.” The core of the First Amendment, in his view, concerned efforts to block the publication of political pamphlets.
EFF urges Chrome users to get out of the Privacy Sandbox
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/30/eff_chrome_google_sandbox/
..."Google referring to any of this as 'privacy' is deceiving," said the foundation's Klosowski.
"Even if it's better than third-party cookies, the Privacy Sandbox is still tracking, it's just done by one company instead of dozens. Instead of waffling between different tracking methods, even with mild improvements, we should work towards a world without behavioral ads."...
#Chrome #tracking #privacy #EFF.