Olives @olives@qoto.org

CDT is encouraged to see a constructive bipartisan discussion draft of a #privacy bill from two key leaders, Senators Cantwell and McMorris.

A comprehensive federal privacy law is long overdue.  We hope that Congress will quickly turn to moving a bill through the legislative process and look forward to working with all stakeholders in finally getting privacy legislation passed. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/committee-chairs-cantwell-mcmorris-rodgers-unveil-historic-draft-comprehensive-data-privacy-legislation

We are dismayed by Google's suspension of our ads account over alleged 'unacceptable business practices'.

Despite numerous attempts for clarification and appeal, silence from Google persists. Our work defending freedom of expression is hindered.

We call on Google to reverse this decision and adhere to its own standards. https://www.article19.org/resources/google-article-19-unfounded-accusations-of-unacceptable-business-practices/

https://reason.com/2024/04/04/federal-appeals-court-says-texas-inmates-decade-long-lawsuit-over-sleep-deprivation-can-keep-going/
"Is it cruel and unusual to subject an incarcerated person to sleep deprivation for years? That's a question it has taken federal courts more than a decade to answer.

On March 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reinstated Texas inmate Michael Garrett's 11-year-long-and-still-running lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, finding that a lower district court had repeatedly and incorrectly subjected him to a higher bar than it should have to prove that being afforded less than four hours of sleep a night violated his constitutional rights."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment

The point of strong safeguards is usually to avoid going down the path of "fuzzy algorithms which auto report people to the police".

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/16/safe-deposit-boxes-fbi-warrantless-raid-fourth-amendment/
"Two lawsuits will move forward against the federal government over the FBI’s warrantless search of hundreds of safe deposit boxes, a court ruled this week. Last year, in a related case, a federal appellate judge called the FBI’s raid “egregious” and “outrageous.”"

Warning: Site might contain images of injured people in Gaza. These are for a different article.
#privacy #FourthAmendment

https://veilid.com/ Serious question. Why would someone have this ultra privacy project but then have like just a Discord (which isn't exactly great for privacy)? #Veilid

https://reclaimthenet.org/major-league-baseball-begins-biometric-facial-recognition-scans
"Technology developed by a company called NEC has been utilized to introduce biometric ticketing on the opening day of the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. This pilot was undertaken at four designated baseball parks, including Minute Maid Park in Houston"
#privacy #FaceRecognition

https://edri.org/our-work/new-eu-health-data-law-endangers-medical-secrecy/
"After almost two years of legislative negotiations, lawmakers from the European Parliament and EU member states have agreed on a compromise for the new European Health Data Space (EHDS) last week.

Unfortunately, the EHDS compromise will expose everyone’s medical records to unnecessary security and privacy risks in the name of research and “innovation”. It mandates every hospital and every doctor to share the private medical data from every single patient—for the purpose of secondary use, i.e. unrelated to the patient’s treatment—with a national agency, the so-called health data access body. Exactly how and what patient data is going to be shared may vary from member state to member state."
#privacy #EHDS