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“This is unacceptable” is likely the only sentence in the entire letter that would survive a revision by a capable writer.

Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards Rite Aid will be prohibited from using facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes for five years to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the retailer failed t

Even if the Federal government's largest AI regulator, the FTC, made AI safety a priority, the FTC does not regulate public or nonprofit schools. So while they could penalize a retail chain for improperly using #AI, they couldn't stop 99% of schools if they wanted to. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

MD has a fairly robust #privacy law that doesn't include broad exemptions for educational institutions or nonprofits like most states. But no school will trigger the processing thresholds (35,000+ consumers or 10,000+ consumers and 20% revenue from data sales). We need a truly comprehensive law.

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.

Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

The ABA supports the rule of law. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Simpson joke on Max Schrems being dragged into yet another broken data transfer framework debate

This is niche as hell, but if it’s not your thing, just know that it’s devastatingly funny.

Screen shot of Spotify recommending “apocalyptic music picked just for you”

If #AI is an existential threat to humanity, at least it will give us a soundtrack to the end times. Thanks for the morning heebeejeebies, Spotify.

Only Texas, Virginia, California, and Connecticut’s laws do not have an explicit exemption for an affiliate of a GLBA-regulated entity.

The rest are brought in under UDAP claims for “turning a blind eye” to the alleged bad acts. Notably, this suit couldn't be brought in most states, because the entities alleged to have violated the law are affiliates of a GLBA entity thus the law which requires notice and opt-out doesn’t apply.

So how did the Texas AG bring a privacy suit against insurance companies? Well, the claims under TDPSA are only against non-insurance defendants, the complaint notes each are a “data and analytics company” and all are affiliates of the insurance defendant.

As I wrote before, this largely leaves consumers with the least control around their most sensitive financial information. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

State Consumer Privacy Laws and the Monetization of Consumer Financial Data | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau New state laws give consumers the right to access, correct, and delete consumer data, but exempt financial institutions and credit reports from these protections.

15 states have wider exemptions, not only exempting any GLBA entity from complying with the law, but also exempting the affiliate of a GLBA entity. A CFPB report notes that the GLBA does not include the same rights as the comprehensive laws. www.consumerfinance.gov/data-researc...

Texas, like all other states with comprehensive privacy laws (except CA) exempts entities covered under GLBA (including Insurance Companies) from its purview. California has a slightly narrower exemption, carving out data that would be regulated under the GLBA but not entire entities.

An interesting aspect of the first suit under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA” (preferably pronounced like calling a kitten)) is that half of the defendants are exempted from the obligations of the TDPSA and all are exempted from most other state comprehensive #privacy laws. #thread

Tyler Childers lives in my hometown and he signed a guitar that is being auctioned to raise money to help a mutual friend, Byron Roberts. If you’re a fan of Tyler’s or know someone who is, please check it out: highpointrealtyandauction.hibid.com/catalog/6103...

It shows $6.99 in the US.

Privacy/security poet laureate @btretick.bsky.social is supposedly here, but hasn’t posted. Come on, Brian, it’s the second week of Advent and BlueSky needs ‘Twas the Night Before the Breach.

In case anyone needs a list of homographs, including a section on re- prefixes and a subsection of re-prefixed homographs that are not distinguished by stress, the British Accent Academy has you covered.

www.britishaccentacademy.com/minimal-pair...

The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World [Kerr, Orin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World

When can the government read your email? When can they search your phone? And how are courts trying adapt the 1791 Fourth Amendment to the digital world? Pre-order my new book, "The Digital Fourth Amendment," at the link below. Comes out January 10th. www.amazon.com/Digital-Four...

Yes, please.

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I had a blast geeking out about Brandeis in front of the American Inn of Courts named for him. The US has changed more around #privacy in the past 6 years than in the 134 since he wrote the right into existence, but his contributions to the field continue to be relevant. #LawSky

A text block that reads: The online world has become so hostile to users that Bluesky’s pitch of ‘here is a straightforward feed of text-based user-generated posts that we promise not to mess with’ is revelatory. Its scaling model and raison d’être are a very rejection of the platforms that have colonized the rest of our digital lives, and relentlessly commodified them. No wonder everyone seems to be rooting for its success, even if there are, pointedly, no guarantees those ideals will remain in place.

Wrote about how Bluesky is booming because it's giving users precisely what the tech giants are taking away

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/blueskys-s...

I sat in a field beside a rapid stream from before sunrise until now. And for a time, I rest in the grace of the world.

Canadian privacy regulators pass resolution to address privacy-related harms resulting from deceptive design patterns Privacy regulators from across Canada have issued a joint resolution calling for action on the growing use of deceptive design patterns (DDPs) that undermine privacy rights. Passed at their October an...

Privacy regulators from across Canada have issued a joint resolution calling for action on the growing use of deceptive design patterns (DDPs) that undermine privacy rights.

The European Data Protection Board adopts its first report under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and a statement on the recommendations on access to data for law enforcement

www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/20...

#EUDataP

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I thought you were saying there was going to be a Pete Seeger biopic! Love Dylan, but have never been more disappointed to see him appear than just now.