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privacy reporter currently @ politico // Do not pitch me on Signal at andre.3000

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New: The TSA fought senators' proposal to make its policy to allow opt-outs for facial recognition scans at airports into a law as it plans to mandate biometric scans in the future https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/05/tsa-fought-against-proposal-to-require-facial-recognition-opt-outs-at-airports-00157411

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Updated with a statement from Sen. Merkley, who proposed the amendment and was a part of the negotiation: "As I worked with other Senate negotiators to develop a compromise proposal governing TSA’s use of facial recognition, it became abundantly clear that the end goal for TSA is to make facial recognition mandatory for all American air travelers and that the current opt-out system will end."

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/05/tsa-fought-against-proposal-to-require-facial-recognition-opt-outs-at-airports-00157411/

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something that sucks about being on mastodon is that other reporters will claim that they have a scoop on twitter even though you've posted the news here already

the good news is that nobody except journalists and ice cream vendors care about scoops

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Something worth watching for on today's hearing is how it will affect state laws pursuing the same data minimization standards. Only Maryland has passed a law bucking the "notice-and-consent" model across 14 states, but Vermont and Maine are looking to join them.

All this support in Congress for data minimization could boost those efforts.

alng, to privacy
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The California Privacy Protection Agency sent a letter to lawmakers today flagging concerns about the American Rights Act. As expected, it urges against preempting California's laws, calling preempting state laws a "short-sighted" decision that would "freeze protections for the next 30 years."

But it also raises concerns about gaps in the APRA that California's regulations already cover. For once I am out of characters, so check out the next few posts: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=0000018e-e902-dff0-a7de-fd7edf260000

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New: Wednesday's hearing on data privacy proposals will focus on why a federal law should preempt state regulations, kids' privacy issues, and other countries' restrictive regulations to avoid. Noticeably missing from the focus points is Private Right of Action, a contentious topic for Republican lawmakers: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/04/key-privacy-hearing-will-focus-on-state-preemption-kids-safety-00152252

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While the focus of the last three days were on a new federal data proposal, Maryland passed the strongest state data privacy law in the US: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/04/maryland-passes-first-state-privacy-law-modeled-on-adppa-00150921

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New: Data brokers and industry groups discussed plans to undercut a New Jersey data privacy law that protects law enforcement officials from being doxxed.

Daniel's Law is one of the few privacy laws that allow people to sue companies for violating regulations. The lawsuits threatened data brokers enough to set up a conference call discussing the law, and their plans to change it. We received leaked audio of that call: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/05/companies-undercut-key-data-privacy-law-00150683

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Everything about this is absolutely ghoulish. This is why privacy matters, this is why reporting matters: Israeli army used an AI targeting system to mark thousands of Gazans for death https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

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Wow: HR 7520, a bill to ban data brokers from selling data to foreign adversaries, just passed through the House unopposed, 414 votes in favor of the legislation

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New: Two years ago, I started looking into why 1 out of 10 unregistered voters chose not to vote because of privacy concerns.

I found doxxing campaigns using people's voter registration records, a group posting more than 161 million voters' information online, and judges citing a 1993 law to overturn bans against publishing voter records on the internet: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/17/the-losing-fight-to-keep-your-voter-registration-data-private-00147401

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The IRS has launched its Direct Filing tool for filing your taxes without needing to rely on third-party companies like TurboTax. But to use it, you have to opt in to facial recognition:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/direct-file-officially-opens-in-12-pilot-states-following-positive-early-reviews-eligible-taxpayers-can-file-online-directly-with-the-irs-for-free

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a strange argument i've heard against banning tiktok is how many people rely on tiktok to get their news

do these people believe that other news sources or social networks don't exist? do they think people would simply stop looking for news if tiktok stopped being available?

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Signal usernames are now out of beta and available to the general public

Hopefully that means I don't need to keep this burner number in my profile for long, but we'll see!

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In today's Morning Tech:

Maryland lawmakers expressed strong skepticism toward tech lobbyists opposing their legislation.

Watch this exchange where a senator calls out NetChoice's lobbyist for ducking his question on who the group's members are: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2024/02/what-you-missed-in-state-privacy-debates-this-week-00141828

video/mp4

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Exclusive: A location data broker was responsible for an anti-abortion ad campaign that targeted 600 Planned Parenthood clinics in 48 states.

“This is the largest targeting campaign we’ve seen to date against reproductive health clinics based on brokered data"

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/planned-parenthood-location-track-abortion-ads-00141172

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Breaking: An appeals court has overturned a decision restricting the California Protection Agency from enforcing its regulations.

The CPPA had to delay its privacy enforcement from July 1, 2023 to March 29, 2024. This decision reverses that and allows them to start enforcing privacy regulations immediately:
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/02/california-privacy-agency-can-start-enforcing-its-regulations-court-rules-00140781

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it is hilarious to me that eric adams has a collection of hats that says his title on it like some kind of cartoon character

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Sen. Wyden just published a series of declassified letters from the Defense Dept detailing how the NSA buys from data brokers for surveillance operations.

One of the DoD's justifications for this practice: this data is also available for foreign adversaries to purchase

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/signed_wyden_letter_to_dni_re_nsa_purchase_of_domestic_metadata_and_ftc_order_on_data_brokers_with_attachments.pdf

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TechNet, the tech industry lobbying group whose members include Apple, Google, Meta and Amazon, put in its 2024 federal policy agenda that businesses are now "forced to comply with a confusing patchwork of state laws."

They spent the last year going state to state to ensure every privacy law that passed would be the same. We documented them celebrating their efforts. So which one is it? https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/16/tech-lobbyists-state-privacy-laws-00111363

The tech lobby is proud of its achievement. TechNet CEO Linda Moore said her group “worked hard to make sure” that the industry-friendly bill passed in 2021 by Virginia became the template nationwide.

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Amazon announces that it will stop letting police request for footage from Ring doorbells through its app -- a concern I've been reporting on since 2019.

(Police will still be able to get footage through warrants and court orders)
https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-announces-new-neighbors-app-features-sunsets-request-for-assistance-post/

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@jonkeegan at The Markup and Consumer Reports found for every person on Facebook, about 2,230 companies share data about them with the tech giant over 3 years

The top 3 companies were data brokers

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2024/01/17/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-study-indicates

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I'd like to reflect on some stories that I was proud of this year:

In October I published my investigation on facial recognition in New Orleans where FOIA'd records showed that the technology was mostly used on Black people and lead to only one arrest in the full year that police used it: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/31/new-orleans-police-facial-recognition-00121427

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In January, I looked into a tip about a Ring customer having footage from his account handed over to police for an investigation against his neighbor.

The case exposed how even when you are innocent, companies can share your private videos to law enforcement agencies, including from cameras that have nothing to do with the investigation: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979

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In August, I received leaked emails from executives at the adtech giant IPG and its subsidiary data broker Acxiom.

The data broker and the adtech giant wanted to use its data collection and targeting abilities to sway Californians against a bill that would make it easier for people to delete their data from data brokers.

The plan never went into action after this story, and the bill passed.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/18/ad-giant-data-regulation-bill-00111849

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