oaklandprivacy

oaklandprivacy, 1 month ago to Ripple

Chris Larsen the founder of #Ripple, who has funded security #cameras all over San Francisco to catch thieves now faces a 2 billion dollar fine from the SEC for "acting outside the law". https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/s-f-crypto-ripple-19370091.php

oaklandprivacy, 2 months ago to journalism

EFF helps #IndyBay fight off a a #warrant. It bears noting that SFPD had promised not harass the press with source warrants after undergoing severe criticism over warrants issued to Bryan Carmody. #Journalism #ShieldLaws https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/victory-eff-helps-resist-unlawful-warrant-and-gag-order-issued-independent-news

oaklandprivacy, 3 months ago to privacy

Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/schools-surveillance-tech-catch-students-vaping-snaring-harsh-106698771

When Iglesias was caught vaping... she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her. Suddenly, the rest of her high school experience was threatened: being student council president, debate team captain, walking at graduation. Even her college scholarships were at risk. She was sent to the district’s alternative school for 30 days and told she could have faced criminal charges.

#privacy #texas #sensors

oaklandprivacy, 3 months ago to Amazon

#Amazon #Ring ends feature that allowed police to publicly request footage from private homeowners on the company's app Neighbors. https://apnews.com/article/ring-amazon-camera-police-request-56a128dcd77a4cb0b27d71be9384fe1a

oaklandprivacy, 4 months ago to Oakland

New audit concludes that defunding and de-prioritizing the successful #Ceasefire gun violence prevention program was a big driver of #Oakland's pandemic rise in #gun violence. https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/12/oakland-murders-and-shootings-ceasefires-audit/

oaklandprivacy, 4 months ago to privacy

Cops Blanketed SF In Geofence Warrants. Google Was Right to Protect People's Privacy
https://www.aclunc.org/blog/cops-blanketed-san-francisco-geofence-warrants-google-was-right-protect-peoples-privacy

...ACLU... has conducted an extensive investigation into the use of geofence warrants by law enforcement in SF. Working with a team of UC Berkeley law students, we spent 100's of hours reviewing thousands of warrants... We analyzed geofence warrants issued from Jan 2018 to Aug 2021 and compiled records of where police used them, and who was potentially affected...

#Privacy #Geofence #SF

oaklandprivacy, 4 months ago to privacy

In the fight over abortion rights, the government bans its first company from tracking medical visits
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/in-the-fight-over-abortion-rights-the-government-bans-its-first-company-from-tracking-medical-visits-00134510

The Biden administration stopped a company from selling data on people’s medical visits on Tuesday, its first settlement on a privacy issue that has many Americans concerned about who can see their most sensitive personal data — particularly visits to abortion providers.

#privacy #abortion #medical

oaklandprivacy, 5 months ago to meta

How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance
https://www.yahoo.com/news/meta-face-camera-heralds-age-124419459.html

For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a new [[eyeglasses embedded]] camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in the name of journalism.) I wasn’t hiding the camera, but I was wearing it, and no one noticed...

#Meta #privacy #surveillance #glasses

oaklandprivacy, 5 months ago to privacy

Meta, X Surveillance Concerns Prompt Calls for FTC Probe
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/meta-x-probe-over-social-media-surveillance-needed-groups-say

Civil liberties groups urged the FTC to investigate Meta and X Corp... for allegedly violating federal supervisory agreements and their own policies to protect users against surveillance companies scooping up their data...

“We should be able to log onto social media without shady companies ransacking our profiles and packaging our private lives into police dossiers,”

#surveillance #privacy #Meta #Twitter

oaklandprivacy, 5 months ago to RadioControl

"While Breed’s measure would authorize police to chase a vehicle with a #drone, drone experts say regulatory and technological hurdles mean that’s unlikely to happen". https://sfstandard.com/2023/12/05/san-francisco-mayor-police-drones/

oaklandprivacy, 5 months ago to Atlanta

Atlanta police use Signal to discuss ‘Cop City’ amid outcry over transparency
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/04/cop-city-atlanta-police-signal-app

High-ranking members of Atlanta’s police department have been using Signal, an encrypted phone app, to communicate about the controversial police and fire department training center known as “Cop City” – to each other, to other police departments and to companies involved in building the project, the Guardian has learned...

#Atlanta #CopCity #Signal #transparency

oaklandprivacy, 5 months ago to privacy

LEXISNEXIS SOLD POWERFUL SPY TOOLS TO U.S. CUSTOMS
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/16/lexisnexis-cbp-surveillance-border/

LexisNexis began selling face recognition... and personal location data to U.S. Customs and Border Protection late last year, according to contract documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request... the $15.9M contract includes a broad menu of powerful tools for locating individuals... using a vast array of personal data, much of it obtained and used without judicial oversight...

#privacy #FOIA #ICE

oaklandprivacy, 6 months ago to Texas

Texas House passes bill that authorizes officers to arrest migrants, one of strictest immigration proposals in US
https://abcnews.go.com/International/texas-house-considers-bill-authorizes-officers-arrest-migrants/story?id=104857797

...Officers and state agencies would be cleared to transport them to ports of entry to make sure they comply. If migrants refused to comply with an order to return, they could be charged with a second degree felony and face up to 20 years in prison...

#Texas #immigration #arrest #supremacyclause #ICE

oaklandprivacy, 6 months ago to privacy

An entire state's population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack
https://mashable.com/article/maine-moveit-ransomware-attack

Maine has confirmed that some points of data that the cybercriminals could potentially have on an individual includes their name, Social Security number, date of birth, driver’s license or state ID number, and taxpayer ID number. Medical information as well has health insurance information may also have been affected...

#privacy #Maine #ransomware

oaklandprivacy, 6 months ago to random

Texas retiree takes her First Amendment fight to the Supreme Court
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4289995-texas-retiree-takes-her-first-amendment-fight-to-the-supreme-court/

The case will hinge on a simple principle: Freedom to criticize the government is at the core of the First Amendment...

Prosecutors recognized the arrest was bogus and dismissed the case. But Gonzalez still got handcuffed, frisked, and sent to jail, where she spent hours on a cold metal bench, wearing an orange jail shirt and avoiding the restroom, which had no doors...

#speech #1stamendment

oaklandprivacy, 7 months ago to Signal

"You’re not just trusting me to not play nice with governments. We literally don’t have the data, which is the only way to actually preserve privacy". #encryption #signal #SMS https://restofworld.org/2023/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-messaing-privacy/

oaklandprivacy, 7 months ago to privacy

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/private-23andme-user-data-is-up-for-sale-after-online-scraping-spree/

...23andMe officials... confirmed that private data for some of its users is... up for sale. The cause of the leak... is data scraping, a technique that essentially reassembles large amounts of data by systematically extracting smaller amounts of information available to individual users

The crime forum post claimed the attackers obtained “13M pieces of data.”

#23andme #privacy #DNA #scraping #datatheft

oaklandprivacy, 7 months ago to privacy

How to defend your digital footprint with free ‘Permission Slip’ app
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/how-to-defend-your-digital-footprint-in-one-tap-with-free-permission-slip-app/

...Powered by... Consumer Reports Permission Slip will put control back in the hands of its users by acting as a liaison between the companies and consumers, ensuring their user data is erased and not sold to third parties...

[[It]]... allows consumers to manage who has their data and... request it not be sold or delete their accounts entirely with the simple tap of a button...
#privacy #databrokers

oaklandprivacy, 7 months ago to internet

Meta, Google, H&R Block accused of coordinated plan to scrape taxpayer data
https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-google-hr-block-accused-of-coordinated-plan-to-scrape-taxpayer-data/

Taxpayers slapped Meta, Google and H&R Block with a sprawling RICO class action Wednesday..

the plaintiffs say the intl firm H&R Block used customers’ private income and financial records to help train Google & Meta’s algorithms & create targeted ads. H&R Block... per the IRS code may not disclose any info it collects for any purpose other than to prepare a tax return...
#Meta #Google #HRBlock

oaklandprivacy, 7 months ago to privacy

Don’t Fall for Intelligence Community’s Monster of the Week Justifications
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/dont-fall-intelligence-communitys-monster-week-justifications

...Citing the need for new surveillance powers in order to secure the homeland has been a nearly foolproof way of silencing dissenters and creating hard-to-counter arguments for enhanced authorities. These surveillance programs are then so shrouded in secrecy that it becomes impossible to know how they’re being used, if they’re effective, or whether they’ve been abused.

#surveillance #privacy

oaklandprivacy, 8 months ago to Futurology

Texas governor Abbott's Operation #LoneStar was found to be running an "unauthorized foreign #intelligence operation. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-national-guard-migrants-whatsapp-intelligence/

oaklandprivacy, 9 months ago to random

Oregon passes comprehensive privacy law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/oregon-passes-comprehensive-privacy-law-2023-08-11/

The Act grants consumers the right to know, access, transfer, correct and delete their personal data. The Act also provides Oregon residents with the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal data, targeted advertising and profiling that produces certain effects. Beginning July 1, 2026, consumers can opt-out... using Global Privacy Control signals..."