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Donald Trump’s Treasury Department doesn’t want law enforcement to be able to “follow the money.”
The Treasury Department announced Friday that it would destroy the government’s registry on shell company ownership,
a database law enforcement uses to investigate money laundering and corruption, The Bulwark reported.
In addition to scaling back requirements for shell companies to submit basic information to the federal government, the new rule will also destroy all the data it …

How Trump is Making the U.S. the Money Laundering Capital of the World
Donald Trump is breaking yet another law to help his friends.

Flock CEO Garrett Langley acknowledges the company "got this one wrong" and is assuming greater responsibility for preventing US law enforcement misuse (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/979339/flock-ceo-audits-data-retention…

Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’
Flock, which makes surveillance tools like automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) used by police, is rolling out new guardrails to combat abuse of its data.

A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)
that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars,
-- potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called #SignalTrace…

This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

Using tools like Face ID or fingerprint unlocking to get into your phone and log in to accounts is certainly easy,
but if you're concerned about your privacy, you should avoid them.
Thanks to a 5th Amendment loophole, law enforcement can compel you to use biometric data to unlock your devices,
but they can't force you to give them a password or passcode.
We saw this earlier this year, when a Washington Post reporter's home was raided by the FBI.

@… Consent is often abused, even when the letter of the law is followed. There should be statutory rules that ban certain types of data collection and any data that could infer them, e.g. sexual orientation, political convictions or religion. But more importantly, there needs to be enforcement, with teeth. The GDPR looks good on paper but is not enforc…