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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…
University App Mandates Are The Wrong Call
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Powerful Permissions, Wimpy Warnings: Installing a Root Certificate Should be Scary
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Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Review 2020
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