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The government surveils you every time you drive through San Jose, collecting a trove of highly revealing data that police search thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It's an unchecked police power, an end run around judicial oversight and a blatant privacy invasion. It's also a violation of the California Constitution. That's why we at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with ACLU of Northern California, have sued the city, its police chief and its mayor.

The government surveils you every time you drive through San Jose, collecting a trove of highly revealing data that police search thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It's an unchecked police power, an end run around judicial oversight and a blatant privacy invasion. It's also a violation of the California Constitution. That's why we at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, with ACLU of Northern California, have sued the city, its police chief and its mayor.

the Indian government is reviewing a proposal by the telecom industry to require smartphone companies to keep satellite location tracking enabled at all times for better tracking. The report states the Indian government, for years, has been concerned about its agencies not getting precise locations when legal requests are made to telecom operators during investigations, and that's because the telecom firms are limited to using cellular tower data.

Health data represents one of the most valuable types of personal data available to companies, whether this be for the training of AI (it is worth noting that the AI health care market is estimated to reach a value of around $187bn by 2030, the development of digital health technology (such as wearables, estimated to be valued at around $76bn by 2030)

The measures contained in the Data (Use and Access) Act, which became law in June this year, have now taken effect, introducing a formal and legally backed set of standards and governance rules with which all certified providers of digital verification services (DVS) must conform. The move is intended to provide the public with confidence when using certified digital identity apps, through a framework that shows suppliers are considered trustworthy.

A recently enacted New York State law requires businesses that algorithmically set prices using customers' personal data to disclose that. According to the law, personal data includes any data that can be "linked or reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific consumer or device." The law doesn't require businesses to explicitly state what information about a person or device is being used or how each piece of information affects the final price a customer sees.

South Korean retail behemoth Coupang has admitted to a data breach that exposed the personal details of 33.7 million customers, turning the company's famed "Rocket Delivery" logistics empire into an express shipment for personal information. The e-commerce titan, often dubbed the "Amazon of Korea," is South Korea's largest retail platform, logistics operator, and warehousing network - a vertically integrated retail giant whose next-day delivery service, Rocket Delivery, has become shorthand domestically for cardboard boxes arriving before customers have fully remembered ordering anything at all.

A West London council is preparing to use drones to bolster its enforcement teams as local authorities across the country quietly build aerial surveillance fleets. A report by Hammersmith and Fulham council sets out plans to deploy drones to support its 70-strong law enforcement team, which issued more than 2,200 fines in 2024. The aircraft will be used to target anti-social behaviour and fly tipping.

Tesla appears to be preparing for the eventual removal of its Robotaxi service's safety drivers. This was hinted at in a recent de-compile of the Robotaxi App's version 25.11.5, which was shared on social media platform X. In-cabin analytics As per Tesla software tracker @Tesla_App_iOS, the latest update to the Robotaxi app featured several improvements. These include Live Screen Sharing, as well as a feature that would allow Tesla to access video and audio inside the vehicle.

Meta allegedly gave accounts engaged in the "trafficking of humans for sex" 16 chances before suspending them, according to testimony from the company's former head of safety and wellbeing, Vaishnavi Jayakumar. The testimony - along with several other claims that Meta ignored problems if they increased engagement - surfaced in an unredacted court filing related to a social media child safety lawsuit filed by school districts across the country.

Data deletion in distributed systems presents challenges that extend far beyond simple database operations. Engineers face a fundamental dilemma: the fear of accidentally destroying critical information keeps teams cautious, yet failing to delete data can expose them to legal risks under regulations like GDPR, increase storage costs, and erode customer trust. "Deletion can't be an afterthought," the presenters emphasized. A major driver of Netflix's platform is managing testing data generated by frequent end-to-end production tests.

Twitch will no longer allow Australians under 16 to create accounts starting December 10, a Twitch spokesperson told TechCrunch. Existing accounts for users under 16 will be deactivated on January 9. Globally, Twitch is open to users 13 and older, and anyone under the legal age of adulthood in their region must have a parent or guardian involved, the spokesperson said.

The questions you ask yourself while learning reveal not just what you don't know but how you think, what confuses you, what excites you, how you make connections, and how you construct meaning from new information. Traditionally, much of this process happened in private-a child working through a math problem in their notebook, a teenager wondering about a concept while walking to school, someone lying in bed thinking about something they heard that day.

The company is in an awkward growth phase. It's a 9-year-old startup and brought in half a billion dollars from July 2024 to July 2025. Wow! But its growth rate is slowing, and there's less urgency from businesses that have implemented new GDPR and privacy practices. Also, an unnoted factor in The Information's report is that OneTrust rocketed out to such early growth thanks in large part to being the recommended privacy partner by Google sell-side account execs.

The pace can be relentless, but it's all in a day's work for busy Airport Search Unit It's just after 9am in Terminal 1 of Dublin Airport, and the trays are rattling down the belt in a steady rhythm - coats, laptops, shoes, water bottles half-forgotten until the last second. Upon arrival, I can see a woman has been seated in a chair and a member of the Airport Search Unit (ASU) has pulled out a privacy screen to make sure she's OK.

We presented several privacy-preserving options to The Times, including targeted searches over the sample ( e.g., to search for chats that might include text from a New York Times article so they only receive the conversations relevant to their claims), as well as high-level data classifying how ChatGPT was used in the sample. These were rejected by The Times,

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