Month: October 2016

By Alexia Ramirez AARP has filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in response to the growing number of employers who financially incentivize their workers to sign up for wellness programs. AARP argues that the programs, which force individuals to choose between financial penalties and the disclosure of private medical information, violate anti-discrimination laws meant to protect workers’ medical information.…

By Eli Siems Researchers from the Center for Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law released a major study on the police use of facial recognition software. The report, The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America, reveals that half of all Americans are catalogued in law enforcement facial recognition networks and that the use of such networks by at least 52 agencies is effectively unregulated.…

By Nate Tisa The ACLU of Northern California has revealed U.S. firm Geofeedia used social media metadata access to deliver location and monitoring information to law enforcement agencies engaged in tracking activists, particularly those involved in the Ferguson, MO protests surrounding the death of Micheal Brown.…

By Taylor Black On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Yahoo secretly installed a program in all user email accounts to search incoming emails for specific information. Since that report, journalists have also uncovered allegations that internal engineering built a siphon system on behalf of NSA to run every email looking for sets of characters.…

By Eliana Pfeffer Yahoo has experienced a number embarrassing security failures over the last four years. Last week, the company disclosed that hackers backed by what it believed was an unnamed foreign government stole the credentials of 500 million users in a breach that went undetected for two years.…