Geofence warrants are “requests” by law enforcement for information on everyone that was in a particular geographic area during a particular time window. Typically they use the results to come up with the usual list of suspects. The initial response usually doesn’t include names and addresses; that comes after the police mine all the data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the details of this are interesting, what is more important is thinking about all of the contracts that you sign. This is a legal battle that goes back several years. In one corner is Fiserv, the Fortune 200 +/- financial services software behemouth. In the other corner is Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LA Police Collected Social Media Account Info From People They Talked To I’m sure they were just curious. The LA police watchdog says that officers were instructed to collect civilians’ social media details when they interviewed them. An Email from the Chief dating back to 2015. He said it could be beneficial to investigations and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Provides Customer IP Address to Swiss Police While police all over the world complain about the universe going dark on them, that is only true to an extent. Proton maintains no logs, but they can capture data in real time. In this case they received an order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, we assume that it is. After all, we think our data is sold all the time. But mega-data-company Thompson Reuters ran across a judge that disagrees. We shall see where the appeals go. The case hinges on a product that TR sells called CLEAR. If you sign up as a CLEAR customer then you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]California AG Rob Bonta has been enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act for over a year now and we are learning what he doesn’t like. One bit of good news that we learned is that notices of violations that he sends out triggers a 30 day cure period and that seems to be working. He […]
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