privacy
Posted May 14, 2022, 8:31 am
Hannah Norman & Victoria Knight/Kaiser Health News
After a draft opinion from the Supreme Court indicating that Roe v. Wade would be overturned, people were expressing concerns about the privacy of period-tracking app information - now, experts answer questions on data access and usage.... Read more»
Posted Mar 25, 2022, 9:53 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona is the first state to allow driver’s licenses to be placed in Apple’s digital wallet, but digital rights activists are concerned about what it could mean for the future of privacy. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 24, 2022, 10:22 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Sen. John Kavanagh, who spent decades as a police officer, is reviving a measure that would heavily redact any body-worn camera footage released to the public, including requiring nearly all faces be blurred - though Arizona already has privacy exemptions to the public record law. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 21, 2022, 3:45 am
Andrea Cipriano
/The Crime Report
Because of the pandemic and virtual learning, behavior in the classroom that would simply be referred back to the parent for home correction is now open to scrutiny by teachers in an academic setting, and these policies have led to negative unintended consequences for students.... Read more»
Posted Dec 27, 2021, 6:29 am
Eli Hager
/ProPublica
Each year, Arizona redirects upward of $30 million of its welfare funding to the Department of Child Safety - over $8 million more than the state spends on welfare itself - who then investigate the same low-income families who could have benefited from cash assistance.... Read more»
Posted Dec 27, 2021, 6:09 am
Lauren Weber & Christina Jewett /Kaiser Health News
Throughout the pandemic, lawmakers from coast to coast have passed laws, declared emergency orders or activated state-of-emergency statutes that severely limited families’ ability to seek legal accountability on hospitals infection-control practices in COVID-related care.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 23, 2021, 2:21 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
An Arizona judge says that the state has collected more than enough material from tech giant Google and it’s time to move onto a trial over the company’s privacy policy - the result of an investigation by the Arizona attorney general that has been going on since at least 2018.... Read more»
Posted Nov 22, 2021, 7:49 am
Andrea Ross
/University of California, Davis/The Conversation
American culture has shifted significantly during the 70 years since amended birth certificates became the norm in adoption, and in response, many legislatures are changing their policies - but for every step forward, there also are proposals restricting full access.... Read more»
Posted Nov 4, 2021, 10:19 am
Julie Levitch
/The Crime Report
As the country debates the path forward for criminal justice reform, the practice of running digital mugshot galleries of arrestees, and the long-lasting harm caused by law enforcement agencies’ practice of publishing booking mugshots online, has largely flown under the radar.... Read more»
Posted Oct 15, 2021, 7:57 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A new breed of aircraft that flies in the stratosphere just completed a set of tests in the Arizona desert, breaking new records and worrying privacy advocates about what the aircraft may hold for the future. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 28, 2021, 8:12 am
Isaac Arnsdorf
/ProPublica
A congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica’s reporting found Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago crowd,” wealthy civilians with no U.S. government or military experience, pursued a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data.... Read more»
Posted Sep 7, 2021, 6:57 am
Peter Elkind, Jack Gillum & Craig Silverman/ProPublica
Since paying $22 billion to buy WhatsApp in 2014, Facebook has been trying to figure out how to generate profits from a service that doesn’t charge its users, and despite assurances to users that no one can see their messages, the company has an extensive monitoring operation. ... Read more»
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Posted Jun 29, 2021, 3:00 pm
Liz Essley Whyte
/Center for Public Integrity
As Americans figure out what post-pandemic life will look like, some states are taking steps to ensure that proof of vaccination ― or so-called “vaccine passports” ― won’t be part of it, amid a wider Republican-led push to curtail public health authorities’ powers.
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Posted May 26, 2021, 8:25 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Republican lawmakers are poised to give the Arizona Department of Public Safety money to equip all state troopers with body-worn cameras — but along with the money comes severe restrictions on the public’s ability to ever see what those cameras capture.... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2021, 2:35 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
An Arizona judge rejected a request from Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for a partial judgment in an ongoing consumer fraud lawsuit against Google, ruling that the state did not have sufficient evidence and the case should move forward with jurors. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 2, 2020, 2:43 pm
Josh Russell
/Courthouse News Service
The ACLU complained in federal court Wednesday that the Trump administration is staying mum about its efforts to track immigrants’ movements using cellphone location data.... Read more»