Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.

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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

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Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.

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More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity

Credit to Author: Eric Geller| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000

Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.

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