Result
of CCPA?
Google
faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet
use
Reuters:
“Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing
the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of
millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through
browsers set in “private” mode. The lawsuit seeks at least $5
billion, accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting
information about what people view online and where they browse,
despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode. According to
the complaint filed in the federal court in San Jose, California,
Google gathers data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and
other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps,
regardless of whether users click on Google-supported ads. This
helps Google learn about users’ friends, hobbies, favorite foods,
shopping habits, and even the “most intimate and potentially
embarrassing things” they search for online, the complaint said.
Google “cannot continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized
data collection from virtually every American with a computer or
phone,” the complaint said…”
- Brown et al v Google LLC et al, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 20-03664.
Not
exactly a coordinated strategy.
YouTube
Censorship Case Turns on Internet Law Trump Scorns
In
a censorship case filed against YouTube by LGBTQ content creators,
the U.S.
Justice Department is
defending the law that protects internet companies from lawsuits –
the same statute President Donald Trump has threatened to revoke.
Trump
targeted the 1996 law in an executive
order last
week as he escalated a fight with Twitter after it tagged two of his
tweets as potentially misleading. But three weeks earlier, the
Justice Department weighed into the YouTube case and urged a federal
judge not to declare the law unconstitutional after the content
creators said it allows the Google
video-sharing
site to violate their free-speech rights.
(Related)
I’m surprised it took so long!
Lawsuit
Says Trump’s Social Media Crackdown Violates Free Speech
… The
nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology says in the suit that
Mr. Trump’s attempt to unwind a federal law that grants social
media companies discretion over the content they allow on their
platforms was retaliatory and would have a chilling effect on the
companies.
The
lawsuit — filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
— is indicative of the pushback that the president is likely to
face as he escalates his fight with social media companies, which he
has accused of bias against conservative voices. It asks the court to
invalidate the executive order.
Why
DEA? Drugs? No. Authorization to investigate non-drug crimes.
DEA
Has Permission To Investigate People Protesting George Floyd’s
Death
“The
Drug Enforcement Administration has been granted sweeping new
authority to “conduct covert surveillance” and collect
intelligence on people participating in protests over the police
killing of George Floyd, according to a two-page
memorandum
obtained
by BuzzFeed
News.
Floyd’s death “has spawned widespread protests across the
nation, which, in some instances, have included violence and
looting,” the DEA memo says. “Police agencies in certain areas
of the country have struggled to maintain and/or restore order.”
The memo requests the extraordinary powers on a temporary basis, and
on Sunday afternoon a senior Justice Department official signed off.
Attorney General William Barr issued a statement
Saturday
following a night of widespread and at times violent protests in
which he blamed, without providing evidence, “anarchistic and far
left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics,” for the unrest. He
said the FBI, DEA, US Marshals, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives would be “deployed to support local efforts
to enforce federal law.”…
Act
quick, because we’re slow!
California
AG Submits CCPA Regulations for Approval – Requests Expedited
Review Ahead of July 1 Enforcement Deadline
… The
final
text is
unchanged from the most recent draft published on March 11, which we
previously
summarized.
The final text also is accompanied by a revised Statement
of Reasons that
explains the basis for the regulations and outlines textual changes
from the initial draft regulations published on October 11, 2019.
There’s
something strange about how this company is managed.
Zoom
won’t encrypt free calls because it wants to comply with law
enforcement
If
you’re a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out
end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you’re
out of luck. Free calls won’t be encrypted, and law enforcement
will be able to access your information in case of ‘misuse’ of
the platform.
Zoom
CEO Eric Yuan today said that the video conferencing app’s upcoming
end-to-end encryption feature will be available to only paid users.
After announcing the company’s financial results for Q1 2020, Yuan
said the firm wants to keep this feature away from free users to work
with law enforcement in case of the app’s misuse:
Interesting
points.
Data
Privacy and Cybersecurity Collides with the World of Intellectual
Property in the New Decade
The
past ten years brought with them a seemingly never-ending array of
data intensive and increasingly “intelligent” technologies.
While data security and privacy remain paramount, an increasingly
data-intensive technological, economic, and social landscape will
mean that the ownership and control of data will become increasingly
important and likely oft-contested. It is here that the worlds of
data privacy, security, and protection collide with the world of
intellectual property. This is a trend we can expect to grow in the
decade ahead, as data intensive technologies like artificial
intelligence (“AI”), blockchain, and the Internet of Things
(“IoT”) and the Cloud continue to break new ground, altering the
legal and security landscape in the process.
For
those, “Oops! I didn’t mean that!” moments.
You
Can Now Delete Your Old Facebook Posts in Bulk
Food
for thought.
In
late March, Attorney General William Barr announced
that
“decision time” was looming for America’s leading tech firms.
By early summer, Barr expects the Department of Justice to reach
preliminary conclusions about possible antitrust violations by
Silicon Valley’s largest companies. The DOJ’s investigation is
just one
of several probes
scrutinizing potential abuses by Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and
Microsoft. While concerns over consumer protections,
anti-competitive practices, and industry concentration have fueled
these antitrust investigations, their results will almost certainly
have national-security ramifications.
Secretary
of Defense Mark Esper has argued
that
artificial intelligence is likely to shape the future of warfare, and
the national-security community has largely backed that conclusion.
The most recent National Defense Strategy, released in 2018,
highlights AI’s importance, noting
that
the Pentagon will seek to harness “rapid application[s] of
commercial breakthroughs…to gain competitive military advantages.”
With defense officials arguing that U.S. military superiority may
hinge on artificial intelligence capabilities, antitrust action aimed
at America’s largest tech companies—and leading AI
innovators—could affect the United States’ technological edge.
Because:
Bored!
The
6 Best Sites to Download Karaoke Music Without Words
… If
you want to download these videos from YouTube so that you can play
them locally without an internet connection, check out our
guide on free ways to download any video.
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than downloading existing karaoke tracks, it’s also quite easy to
make your own using music that you already own. For this, you need
to download free music software Audacity.
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