License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case
www.404media.co/flock-remove... S. E. Smith / @sesmith.lol : Love it when reporting like this from @404media.co forces sleazy companies to change their practices now that they've been forced into dayl...
Pornhub blocks access in two more states, Montana and North Carolina, in protest of the states' age verification laws that went into effect on January 1
The funny thing is, while the NC law is clumsily implemented and of course puts a ridiculous barrier of entry up, the immediate impacts of it might be . . . good? — Compliance will be hardest for si...
Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before going offline in Louisiana age gating cut traffic there by ~80%
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Pornhub adds a video message to its homepage for Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas visitors, asking to oppose the states' newly passed age verification laws
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica :
Frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill, tech privacy advocates are turning to legislation at state level to bolster online privacy, including in Illinois and NY
Tech privacy advocates frustrated by failures on Capitol Hill are looking to mine state capitals for legislative victories. Mastodon: @alng@journa.host . Tweets: @jduballreports , @kyleschmauch , @alf...
As the US faces record COVID-19 infections, effective use of exposure notification apps is unlikely, given slow adoption and poor data on their efficacy
Virginia's COVIDwise app was reinstalled on my new phone but didn't prompt me to enable notifications. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Exposure notification apps have ...
Kamala Harris announces that the Biden administration will make $1B in grants available to expand broadband access and adoption on tribal lands
aside from the pandemic mentions — could have been written in 2013, when I started covering this beat. So little change in so long a time. https://www.politico.com/... U.S. Commerce Dept / @commercego...
Apple, Google, and others hire lobbyists to counter proposed legislation in Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, and Texas aimed at privacy, app store fees, and ads
Wall Street Journal :
Virginia's governor signs the Consumer Data Protection Act into law, effective Jan. 2023, making it the second US state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law
Kate Andrews / Virginia Business :
State-level data privacy laws, proposed in Virginia, Washington, and others, may cause headaches for companies like online stores operating in multiple states
Data protection bills in Washington and Virginia come as the pandemic pushes life further online