November, 2023

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Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying

WIRED Threat Level

The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 pulls from past privacy bills to overhaul how police and the feds access Americans’ data and communications.

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Explained: Privacy washing

Malwarebytes

Privacy is at the heart of everything we do.” Changing data retention practices to make auto-delete the default. Data are the most coveted currency of our era, and technology giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon are considered the behemoths of the data gathering industry. Question: Who said the sentence below?

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Predator Files: A Scathing Indictment of EU Surveillance Regulation

SecureWorld News

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it. Chairman, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC.

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US Federal Judge Upholds Automakers' Right to Record Texts, Call Logs

SecureWorld News

The lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that the automakers' practice of collecting and storing this sensitive data without customers' knowledge or consent constituted a violation of the Washington Privacy Act (WPA). The WPA prohibits the interception of private communications without a warrant or other legal justification.

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What Gen Z really cares about when it comes to privacy

Malwarebytes

It would be easy to think that Gen Z doesn’t care about privacy. But it isn’t that Gen Z, wholesale, doesn’t care about privacy. It’s that they care about privacy in a different way. It’s that they care about privacy in a different way. It is also unlikely to lean on the same concept of “privacy” itself.

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HIPAA Compliance Checklist for Enhanced Data Security

Centraleyes

Privacy Standards Audit (Not required for Business Associates) This audit focuses on assessing compliance with HIPAA Privacy Standards, which govern the use and disclosure of PHI. Privacy standards audits include: Evaluating privacy policies and procedures. Surveillance systems. Security of electronic PHI.

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Meta whistleblower says company has long ignored how it sexually endangers children

Malwarebytes

Criticism of the bill mostly points out that it might potentially enable censorship and increased online surveillance. Instagram has already been fined €405 million after European Union privacy regulators came to a decision on a long-running complaint related to how the social media platform handles children’s data.

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