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@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-04-15 03:18:04

Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE theverge.com/news/911789/eff-g

Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over its handing of user data over to law enforcement.

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-09 10:38:23

The Price is Right: Responsible Uses of Personal Data in Pricing
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The Price is Right: Responsible Uses of Personal Data in Pricing
This resource provides an overview of how data is used to inform pricing; contextualizes data-driven pricing in existing U.S. law, enforcement activity, and emerging legislation; and recommends a number of best practices for guiding retail and e-commerce platforms in using data responsibly when it affects pricing. These practical recommendations, developed in consultation with companies working to build trustworthy pricing practices, are aligned with how leading organizations have built robust,…

@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchange
2026-04-06 16:49:33

Signal and Proton Mail – What Private Information Can Law Enforcement Access?
On a regular basis I see questions being asked about the privacy of Signal and Proton Mail in terms of potential law enforcement access. It seems reasonable to me to be skeptical – we live with a large number of Internet vendor applications and services that do not respect our privacy and which capture information about us to sell to data brokers or advertisers. Some of companies pro-actively work with law e…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-20 19:18:50

Supreme Court to consider whether geofence warrants are constitutional therecord.media/supreme-court-

Supreme Court to consider whether geofence warrants are constitutional
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which let law enforcement compel companies to provide the location data of cell phones at specific times and places.