You may have noticed consent pop-ups on most websites, particularly for the collection of your cookies (not the type you eat). Most of these messages are a result of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020 with the supposed intent of “giving Californians more control over their personal information.”
Surveillance and self-governance are like oil and water. They do no not mix well. Increasingly, US cities are turning to surveillance systems in an effort to undercut the rise of violent crime.
Lina Khan attempts to greatly expand the FTC’s authority to prosecute unfair and deceptive trade practices, however, could run into the wall of the Court’s most-recently established doctrine.
A new Houston law leverages funds from The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to require businesses to provide police access to private surveillance footage.
Consumers have no control over how their private data — such as location and search history — is collected, stored, and distributed.
Liberty does not grow in every soil. Certain preconditions are necessary for freedom to flourish. Privacy is one of these necessary preconditions. Without the ability to live a life separate from unreasonable intrusions of the external world, freedom is illusory.
In June of this year, federal agents, acting on a warrant, searched Eastman outside a restaurant in Albuquerque. During the search agents seized Eastman’s cell phone.
General warrants give law enforcement agents broad authority “to search and seize unspecified places or persons.”
Recent revelations that have landed Ring—a residential, visual doorbell service—in hot water reveal the need for legislative and cultural change to protect individual privacy rights.
