Privacy News Round-Up #6.
03 Aug 2023, 05:30
Privacy News Round-Up #6 🌐
1. US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’: The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers.
2. UK spy agencies want to relax ‘burdensome’ laws on AI data use: GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 propose weakening safeguards that limit training of AI models with bulk personal datasets.
3. Meta says it will offer Europeans a free choice to deny tracking: Meta is bowing to legal inevitability in the European Union: It’s announced it will finally comply with regional privacy regulations by giving users a free choice to deny its behavioral advertising.
4. This California agency wants to know what happens to all that connected car data: The California Privacy Protection Agency announced plans this week to review the data privacy practices of automakers that make and sell connected vehicles embedded with all kinds of data-mining features, from cameras and location sharing to web-based entertainment and smartphone integration.