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Femtech Apps Under Fire for Broad Sharing of Sensitive Data – Digital Privacy News (archive)

Women who use apps to track ovulation, menstrual cycles and pregnancy could be revealing intimate information about themselves not only to advertisers, but also to insurers and employers, privacy experts and lawmakers told Digital Privacy News.

“You have no idea” who has your data, said New York State Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan. “This is a very in-depth invasion of your privacy if you stop to think about it.”

Allegations disclosed in recent news reports that the fertility app P
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‘Dreamers’ Live in Fear of ICE Accessing Data as SCOTUS Weighs DACA’s Fate – Digital Privacy News

Arizona resident Jose Ramos (not his real name) came to the United States from Mexico with his family when he was 8 years old.

In 2013, when he was 18, he obtained deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He was in his first semester of community college.

In his DACA application, Ramos gave his address and other personal information to U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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In Nashville, Sharing COVID Data With Police Raises Fears Among Blacks, Immigrants – Digital Privacy News

Critics of sharing information about those who are COVID-positive with police and other first responders say it’s a privacy breach that disproportionally affects African Americans and other people of color.

“It’s a perfect storm,” Craig Klugman, professor of bioethics and health humanities at DePaul University in Chicago, told Digital Privacy News. “There’s a lot of distrust out there.”
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Kids, adults form special bond through Mitchell County mentoring program

Osage High School graduate Emma Williams was in second grade when her father was diagnosed with ALS.
At her mother’s request, she was partnered with an adult mentor, Kris Lewis, through the Bridges Mentoring program.
Williams, now a third-year student at Wartburg College in Waverly studying graphic design and studio art, aged out of formal participation in the mentoring program when she turned 18. However, she still goes to see Lewis every time she goes home.

Utah Creates Personal Privacy Oversight Committee – Digital Privacy News (archive)

The Utah House of Representatives passed a bill last week to regulate the use of surveillance and data-collection technology by government entities or their contractors.

If signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Fox, the legislation would establish two personal privacy officer positions, one appointed by Fox and the other by State Auditor John Dougall, also a Republican, as well as a privacy oversight commission.

The bill, sponsored by House Majority Leader Frank Gibson, R-Mapleton, may be the firs

Q&A: Ames Grawert, Brennan Center for Justice – Digital Privacy News (archive)

We Must Be ‘Serious About Giving People a Second Chance’

Ames Grawert is senior counsel and the John L. Neu justice counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School.

He is a coauthor of a recent study, “Conviction, Imprisonment and Lost Earnings: How Involvement with the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality.”

The study describes how criminal convictions negatively affect an individual’s finances for a lifetime because of the stigma that prevents them from

Q&A: Ames Grawert, Brennan Center for Justice – Digital Privacy News (archive)

We Must Be ‘Serious About Giving People a Second Chance’

Ames Grawert is senior counsel and the John L. Neu justice counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School.

He is a coauthor of a recent study, “Conviction, Imprisonment and Lost Earnings: How Involvement with the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality.”

The study describes how criminal convictions negatively affect an individual’s finances for a lifetime because of the stigma that prevents them from

NY Tenants Fight Off Smart-Home Tech, But Laws Lag Behind – Digital Privacy News (archive)

“We never asked for it,” Fabian Rogers says of face technology in the Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment complex where he lives.

In the fall of 2018, Fabian Rogers and his fellow tenants in the Atlantic Plaza Towers apartment complex in Brooklyn learned their landlord wanted to install a facial-recognition system for the locks in the building.

Rogers, 25, a community advocate who has lived at Atlantic Plaza since he was 10, said the tenants already felt like they were being constantly watched.

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Q&A: California Tech Lawyer Jeffrey J. Blatt – Digital Privacy News (archive)

Will an artificial intelligence system eventually be created that collects vast amounts of data on almost everyone in the United States to predict who is likely to become an active shooter?

The technology exists to make this system possible, said Jeffrey J. Blatt, a California tech lawyer and founder of X Ventures, which represents clients in international technology and related issues, during recent IT security conference in San Francisco.

However, society as a whole must decide if potentiall