Category: Data security
Rights advocates alarmed by US spy agency’s purchase of warrantless phone location data
“Congress must end this lawless practice and require the government to get a warrant for our location data, regardless of its source.” by Brett Wilkins, staff writer Friday, January 22 Digital rights advocates reacted with alarm…
Indigenous data sovereignty shakes up research
In the COVID-19 era, tribal nations want research in service of their people. by Kalen Goodluck, High Country News Thursday, October 8 As U.S. government scientists work to understand how COVID-19 affects the human body, tribal…
Protecting, sharing, and hiding behind private health data
by Wade Rathke September 14, 2020 New Orleans Most of us think our own health is our business, that is until we find out it is big business, and that everyone wants to make it…
In rebuke to US mass surveillance, EU court blocks data transfers by web corporations
“U.S. surveillance violates fundamental privacy rights and continues to be a massive financial liability for U.S. companies trying to compete in a global market.” by Julia Conley, staff writer Thursday, July 16 A major ruling from…
The RNC stopped paying a data firm after a serious breach. Then it paid a mysterious LLC with the same address.
Three years after the Republican National Committee publicly sidelined the sullied firm, it paid an LLC with the same address $900,000 for “data services.” The RNC said it wouldn’t “waste any more breath explaining these innocuous…
