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Privacy Awareness
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Edina latest suburb to roll out homeowner surveillance camera program
Neighboring Richfield started SafeCam last year, while the Savage and Coon Rapids police departments — the first in the state to roll it out — are nearly four years into the program.
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Some European carriers are already blocking Apple’s Private Relay feature on the iPhone
One of the major new iCloud features announced last year was Private Relay, which seamlessly sets up an encrypted VPN-like tunnel for all iPhone Safari traffic. Private Relay is currently available as...
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The EU asks Europol to erase data of those that hadn’t committed crime
The European Union (EU) has ordered Europol to delete a huge database of data associated with EU citizens who weren’t associated with any crimes in recent years.
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Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail
Thanks to “genetic genealogy,” solving crimes with genomic databases is becoming mainstream — with some uncomfortable implications for the future of privacy.
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Facebook collecting people’s data even when accounts are deactivated
Facebook does not make it clear that, when accounts are deactivated, its data connections continue to get new information.
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Amazon Alexa Devices Take Voiceprints, Misuse Biometric Data, Says Class Action
Amazon improperly collects and stores consumers’ biometric data through its Alexa voice-based virtual assistant devices.
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How to Opt Out of Verizon’s Custom Experience Tracking
Unless you manually opt out of the program, Verizon will store personal information and create user interest profiles.
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Big Data May Not Know Your Name. But It Knows Everything Else
Data brokers claim that deidentified data on millions of Americans is risk-free. Lawmakers need to know that “anonymity” is an abstraction.
