The Privacy Foundation at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law presents:

Children’s Data Privacy Law

Friday, April 18, 2025 12:00 Noon – 2:30 p.m. Please register – lunch will be served

To register, email Kristen.Dermyer@du.edu or link here: https://udenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3V74CHX8RM1y8C

and it’s about time.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance

Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance

Your location data isn't just a pin on a map—it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. I t can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes dangerously, where you seek healthcare. In today’s world, your most private movements are harvested, aggregated, and sold to anyone with a credit card. For those seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care, or visiting a protest or a immigration law clinic, this data is a ticking time bomb.

… The good news? Lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, Illinois and elsewhere are stepping up, leading the way to protect privacy and ensure that healthcare access and other exercise of our rights remain safe from invasive surveillance.

Those who do not study history are domed to repeat it.

https://www.bespacific.com/an-ars-technica-history-of-the-internet-part-1/

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day.” In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals in his office. The year was 1966. Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Processing Techniques Office. The agency was created in 1958 by President Eisenhower in response to the launch of Sputnik. So Taylor was in the Pentagon, a great place for acronyms like ARPA and IPTO. He had three massive terminals crammed into a room next to his office. Each one was connected to a different mainframe computer. They all worked slightly differently, and it was frustrating to remember multiple procedures to log in and retrieve information.”