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 the Internet age, the distribution of state power has drastic implications for Americans’ civil and privacy rights. Across the globe, counterterrorism is weaponized as a pretext for civil rights abuses.
The use of facial recognition software has recently exploded. Some applications of this technology are benign, such as using the software to verify identity. However, other applications raise red flags.
What is doxxing?
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term as “publicly identify[ing] for [publication] private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge.”
Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was arrested in the driveway of his home, taken to the local police station, and interrogated for a crime he did not commit. Mr. Williams was the victim of a facial recognition algorithm.
Facial recognition, geolocation tracking, and public video surveillance are all becoming more widely used – not only by private companies but also by the government.
