Data Security

Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package…

Community organizations like churches often need to post a privacy policy on their website. A privacy policy is a legally required document explaining what personal data your church website collects…

In March 2023, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, along with other technology experts, signed an open letter asking that training powerful AI models be stopped until stronger AI governance laws…

When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that…

Charity organizations do important work that often involves data collection and processing, like organizing call lists, collecting emails for newsletters, or analyzing user engagement to determine the effectiveness of events…

Subject rights requests can be confusing for everybody involved. 

The Federal Communications Commission wants to require telecommunications providers to collect vast amounts of personal information from every person who wants a phone number in the name of combatting scam…

The technological advancement of this century brought with it unprecedented opportunity to gather and collect enormous amounts of personal information from consumers and use it for marketing — among other…

When we write about data privacy, it’s easy to default to talking to “privacy professionals.” 

When Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I’d fight…