Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.
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ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
In a letter sent last week, ICE’s top official indicated to members of Congress the agency is using a spyware tool to intercept encrypted messages of fentanyl traffickers.
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A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration’s efforts to merge personal data
A class action lawsuit argues that the administration’s efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violates privacy laws and the Constitution.
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A judge ordered Google to share its search data. What does that mean for user privacy?
The ruling in the Google antitrust trial has led to a host of hard-to-answer questions about the future of Google’s search data, which the tech giant must now share with competitors. What does that mean for users’ data privacy?
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With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void
Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.
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Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
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As USDA begins gathering data on food stamp recipients, it widens its ask of states
The USDA updated its demand to states for food assistance applicants’ data to include immigration status and information on household members. States face a July 30 deadline to submit the data.
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Judge OKs sale of 23andMe — and its trove of DNA data — to a nonprofit led by its founder
The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe’s services won’t be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge greenlighted the sale of the remnants of the firm, including its wealth of genetic data, to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki.
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The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states
States hold troves of sensitive personal data that were previously never shared with the federal government or across federal agencies. The Trump administration is trying to change that.
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Lawsuit challenges USDA demand for food stamp data as some states prepare to comply
The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws.
