California lawmaker seeks to end to ‘reverse warrants’ that could pinpoint abortion seekers

Lawmakers say the overly broad surveillance tool poses a major threat to reproductive privacy.

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Democrats press Google to overhaul data location practices to protect abortion-seekers

“Google cannot allow its online advertising-focused digital infrastructure to be weaponized against women,” the lawmakers write.

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Reproductive rights at risk galvanize calls for federal privacy legislation

Lack of federal privacy protections could make abortion bans a lot more dangerous.

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Geofence Warrant Sends Bicyclist’s Privacy Over the Handlebars

About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name.

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Click Armor Demo, Podcast Survey Results, Google Geofence Warrants

In episode 98 of our monthly show co-host Scott Wright shows us a demo of Click Armor which is a gamified cybersecurity awareness platform, Tom presents the results of our listener survey, and we have a discussion about the privacy concerns with geofen… Continue reading Click Armor Demo, Podcast Survey Results, Google Geofence Warrants

Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime

The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant. Continue reading Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime