Washington Post-Schar School poll surveying more than 1,100 adults found wide distrust of social media companies with 73% calling data collection for ad targeting, “unjustified,” and 64% saying government should do more to regulate privacy.
Illinois’ new Protecting Household Privacy Act is first-of-its-kind legislation. It protects household IoT device records by not allowing law enforcement access without a search warrant.
The group of parents from eight US states – Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington – who objected to Amazon collecting recordings of their children’s voices, have ended their privacy suit. No announcement was made on whether payment was made to the litigants.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.