At a White House roundtable, the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau touts Fair Credit Reporting Act rules to crack down on harmful data broker practices
like payment history or criminal history — as a consumer report under the FCRA. That would trigger new accountability requirements. Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : The 2nd proposed r...
The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel
Ring turned over footage of inside a user's home and business after a US judge's warrant gave police access to investigate a neighbor, raising privacy concerns
Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
Ring turned over footage of inside a user's home and business after a US judge's warrant gave police access to investigate a neighbor, raising privacy concerns
Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
Ring turned over footage of inside a user's home and business after a US judge's warrant gave police access to investigate a neighbor, raising privacy concerns
Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
A study finds 11 data brokers selling Americans' mental health information, including on antidepressants, insomnia, and attention issues, likely from app makers
The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children
on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security p...
The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children
on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security p...
A look at 37 companies within the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that some estimate will be worth $300B-$800B by 2030
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you've probably never heard of Tweets: @funnymonkey , @themarkup , @jaycstanley , @nabihasyed , an...
Amazon gave police Ring camera footage 11 times in 2022 without a warrant or permission from Ring owners, saying it sometimes makes a “good-faith determination”
Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly surveillance subsidiary, has long defended …
An investigation finds Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have launched a coordinated campaign in 31 states against data privacy legislation since 2021
Coordinated industry lobbying is overwhelming the scattered efforts of consumer groups and privacy-minded lawmakers
Life360 will stop selling users' precise location data and sell aggregate data to two clients down from a dozen, after a report found it's a broker top source
The Markup :
Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources
family safety app Life360. Life360 sells location data from its 33 million users to about a dozen data brokers, including X-Mode, Safegraph, and Cuebiq. https://themarkup.org/... W...
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
Companies collect and aggregate location data from millions of people's phones. Tweets: Dani Homados / @homados : Most people I talk to don't realize they live in a surveillance ec...
A look at the $12B location data industry, including how collectors, aggregators, and marketplaces monetize user data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements — Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on...
SEC charges App Annie with securities fraud, accusing it of “engaging in deceptive practices” and misrepresenting its data; App Annie will pay a $10M settlement
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that it's charging App Annie, the mobile app data provider … Source: U.S. Securities … .
Controversial Israeli facial recognition startup AnyVision raises $235M Series C co-led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Eldridge Industries
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Public records and a 2019 version of its user guide show just how invasive AnyVision's facial recognition software can be; AnyVision's customers include schools
One school using the software saw that a student's face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week Tweets: @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @jessedamiani , @themarkup , and @alf...