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San Francisco Poised to Make History With Law Banning Use of Facial Recognition Technology

'Alexa, Stop Spying on My Kids': FTC Complaint Charges Amazon's Echo Dot Violates Child Privacy Law

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Echo Dot Kids Edition

"Amazon markets Echo Dot Kids as a device to educate and entertain kids, but the real purpose is to amass a treasure trove of sensitive data that it refuses to relinquish even when directed to by parents."

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Citing 'Unprecedented' Power of Zuckerberg, Facebook Co-Founder Says: 'Time to Break It Up'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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Chris Hughes, the CEO's former college roommate and colleague, says powerful...

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Digital Rights Defenders Sound Alarm Over Big Tech's Efforts to 'Erode' California's Landmark Privacy Law

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"We will not let them kill strong privacy bills in the dark."

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With Nation Distracted by Mueller Report, Facebook Admits Millions of Users' Passwords Affected by Latest Privacy Breach

'Unjustified and Unnecessary': DHS Could Use Facial Recognition on 97% of Departing Airline Passengers

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'A More Just and Equitable Future': Advocates Welcome Markey's Privacy Bill of Rights

'Zoink': Facebook Facing Criminal Charges Over Data Sharing Deals

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As Web Turns 30, Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee Says 'You Should Have Complete Control of Your Data'

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Privacy Advocates Sound Alarm as CBP 'Scrambling' to Deploy Facial Recognition at Major US Airports

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NSA Has Halted Mass Domestic Spying Program First Exposed by Snowden in 2013: GOP Aide

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WATCH: Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff Discuss Mounting Dangers of 'Surveillance Capitalism'

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'We Are Here to Buy a Senator': Ahead of Data Privacy Hearing, Digital Rights Defenders Target Lavish Telecom-Backed Fundraiser

To Save US Journalism, 'Ambitious' Proposal Urges Tax on Tech Giants That Helped Destroy News Industry

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'Breathtaking and Terrifying': UN Food Relief Agency Partners With CIA-Funded Software Firm Palantir

Warning More Surveillance Would Violate Civil Liberties at Border and Beyond, Rights Groups Say So-Called "Smart Wall" Is Dumb

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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Advocates Demand FTC Investigation of Echo Dot Kids Edition

ACLU

New Documents Reveal DHS Claiming Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers’ Phones and Laptops

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Consumer Groups Urge Congress to Protect Marginalized Communities from Discriminatory Privacy Abuses

Fight for the Future

Congress Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Permanently End the NSA’s Mass Surveillance of Phone Records

Free Press Action

Free Press Action and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Release Proposed 'Online Civil Rights and Privacy Act' to Combat Data Discrimination...

Fight for the Future

20,000+ People Demand Federal Investigation into the sale of Users’ Real-Time Location Data by Cell Phone Providers

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Vera Eidelman, Ramya Krishnan

The Government’s System of Censoring Its Former Employees Is Unconstitutional

Vasudha Talla

Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations

Gennie Gebhart

A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We'll Believe It When We See It.

Melodi Dincer, Kristin M. Mulvey

The Government Cannot Force E-mail Companies to Copy and Save Your Account ‘Just in Case’

Sydney Li, Jason Kelley

Google Screenwise: An Unwise Trade of All Your Privacy for Cash

India McKinney

A Surveillance Wall Is Not a Good Alternative to a Concrete Wall

Thom Hartmann

How Libertarian Theology and Trump Are Destroying the Internet—and America

Jacob Snow

Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door

Michael Sisitzky, Simon McCormack

New NYPD Drone Policy Represents a Serious Threat to Privacy

Ro Khanna

Facebook's and Google’s Breaches Show It’s Time for an Internet Bill of Rights

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