PRG News Roundup, September 13, 2023
News Mozilla says "modern cars are a privacy nightmare." This summer has seen increasing attention by data protection agencies towards the collection and use of personal data to train AI…
PRG News Roundup: December 7th
By Alexia Ramirez Popular Chinese credit rating firms, Sesame Credit and China Rapid Finance, have been reported to use consumer’s online-shopping habits and social networks to calculate their credit scores.…
PRG News Roundup: November 16th
By Eliana Pfeffer Security contractors recently discovered preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors where users go, whom they talk to and what they write in text messages. The…
PRG News Roundup: November 2nd
By Caroline Alewaerts The news of the discovery of new e-mails potentially relevant to Hillary Clinton’s private server investigation is all over the media. The fact that these e-mails have…
PRG News Roundup: October 26th
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…
PRG News Roundup: October 19th
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…
PRG News Roundup: October 12
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…
PRG News Roundup: October 5th
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…
PRG News Roundup: September 28th
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…
PRG News Roundup: September 21st
The U.S. government officially endorsed driverless cars: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/self-driving-cars-guidelines.html?_r=0 Google unveiled its highly anticipated messaging app Allo which partially relies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/technology/personaltech/allos-tryout-5-days-with-googles-annoying-office-intern.html There's a class-action lawsuit over the privacy…