Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC metro area.The officials accepted the offer, according to ...Vaccine mandates are becoming increasingly urgent from public health officials and various governments. As they roll out, we must protect users of vaccine passports and those who do not want to use—or cannot use—a...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC metro area.The officials accepted the offer, according to ...Vaccine mandates are becoming increasingly urgent from public health officials and various governments. As they roll out, we must protect users of vaccine passports and those who do not want to use—or cannot use—a...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOn Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single,...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOn Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single,...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOn Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single,...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOn Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single,...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOn Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single,...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOn Tuesday, that data broker SafeGraph was selling location information “related to visits to clinics that provide abortions including Planned Parenthood facilities.” This included where people came from and where they went afterwards.In response, SafeGraph to stop selling data about Planned Parenthood visitors. But it...The White House announced today that sixty one countries the Declaration for the Future of the Internet. The high-level vision and principles expressed in the Declaration—to have a single,...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItVisa, the credit card network, is financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion. The merger is bad for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it would allow a giant company with a controlling market share and a   to snap up its fast-growing competition in the market for payment apps. But Plaid is more than a potential disruptor, it’s also sitting on a massive amount of financial data acquired through questionable means. By buying Plaid, Visa is buying all of its data. And Plaid’s users—even those...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItVisa, the credit card network, is financial technology company Plaid for $5.3 billion. The merger is bad for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it would allow a giant company with a controlling market share and a   to snap up its fast-growing competition in the market for payment apps. But Plaid is more than a potential disruptor, it’s also sitting on a massive amount of financial data acquired through questionable means. By buying Plaid, Visa is buying all of its data. And Plaid’s users—even those...WW…

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn response to the very real pressures that online news outlets are facing, Congress continues to believe the very flawed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a magic solution. It is not. In fact, it is actively dangerous. And there’s a available....In May, Senators Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Richard Blumenthal introduced the “.” The bill, also called the “Digital Advertising Act” or just “DAA” for short, is an ambitious attempt to regulate, and even break up, the biggest online...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn response to the very real pressures that online news outlets are facing, Congress continues to believe the very flawed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a magic solution. It is not. In fact, it is actively dangerous. And there’s a available....In May, Senators Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Richard Blumenthal introduced the “.” The bill, also called the “Digital Advertising Act” or just “DAA” for short, is an ambitious attempt to regulate, and even break up, the biggest online...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItTable: Common surveillance features of bossware productsActivity monitoring (apps, websites)Screenshots or screen recordingsKeyloggingWebcam/ microphone activationCan be made "invisible"ActivTrakCleverControlDeskTimeHubstaffInterguardStaffCopTeramindTimeDoctorWork ExaminerWorkPulsShare ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItTable: Common surveillance features of bossware productsActivity monitoring (apps, websites)Screenshots or screen recordingsKeyloggingWebcam/ microphone activationCan be made "invisible"ActivTrakCleverControlDeskTimeHubstaffInterguardStaffCopTeramindTimeDoctorWork ExaminerWorkPulsShare ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC...WW…

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItA data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received widespread support from big tech . It’s no wonder they like it because, as currently written, the WPA would be a weak, token effort at reining in corporations’ rampant misuse of personal data.The WPA didn’t come from nowhere, and it didn’t come alone. A number of have or endorsed that will give the impression of regulation without changing the surveillance business model. Moreover,...…Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItA data privacy bill in Washington State has gained momentum. The bill, (also known as the Washington Privacy Act, or WPA), has received widespread support from big tech . It’s no wonder they like it because, as currently written, the WPA would be a weak, token effort at reining in corporations’ rampant misuse of personal data.The WPA didn’t come from nowhere, and it didn’t come alone. A number of have or endorsed that will give the impression of regulation without changing the surveillance business model. Moreover,...WW…