PRG 4/29 News Notes
The Israeli High Court of Justice issued a ruling that the internal service’s contact tracing must be done through means set in law by the legislature. They had not disclosed their methods previously, so the ruling strikes down their current practice. (Haaretz)
The ACLU was suing to enjoin “WAMI” program, currently a pilot program in Baltimore. The program involves surveillance planes equipped with cameras constantly flying over the city. A District Court judge denied the ACLU’s request for a temporary injunction. The ACLU is appealing the ruling. (Baltimore Magazine)
The UK is opting out of Google/Apple’s Bluetooth COVID tracing. Plans on building their own app with a private developer. (BBC)
The French government also pushed back on Apple/Google, requesting the companies disclose more info as part of API. (MacRumors.com)
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the company hiQ to respond to Linkedin’s motion to intervene in an ongoing case, which indicates that the Court is interested in/reviewing the case and may grant cert. The case concerns data scraping and could have major implications for biometrics and companies like Clearview. (MediaPost.com)
Congress put out a call for engineers to modernize governmental procedures – move to online/tech versions of systems currently done in paper, spurred by COVID-19. (Tech Congress)
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a search warrant requesting all contents of a cell phone was overbroad, thus violating the Fourth Amendment’s particularity doctrine. (Justia)
A large number of Americans are unable or unwilling to use Apple/Google’s COVID system. (Washington Post)
Germany changed their stance on the Apple/Google COVID initiative after resisting for a while. (DW.com)
China arrested several internet users who uploaded records of the coronavirus outbreak to Github. (QZ)