Justice Department sues four more states for access to detailed voter data

This brings the total number of states being targeted to 18; the data sought include names, addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers ...

Trump's SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it's flagging U.S. citizens too

Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as ...
Center on Budget and Policy PrioritiesOpinion

Trump Administration’s Legally Dubious Misuse of Social Security Data Risks Disenfranchising Eligible Voters

Friday, December 12 is the deadline for public comments on a policy the Trump Administration secretly adopted in May, giving ...
New York Post

Jack Smith subpoenaed GOP phone logs despite DOJ lawyers’ constitutional concerns: emails

WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed Republican lawmakers’ phone logs even after the Department of Justice warned of “litigation risk” stemming from the potentially ...
ConsumerAffairs

AI Privacy Concerns and Issues

Advocates cite documented cases of AI toys giving dangerous, explicit, or misleading responses to kids A coalition of leading child-development specialists and technology-safety advocates is urging ...
Fox 12 Oregon

Flock surveillance cameras raise privacy concerns amid immigration enforcement

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Automatic license plate readers are collecting and storing data from every passing vehicle on neighborhood streets, raising privacy concerns as federal officers have accessed ...
Wired

Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants

Last week, the Social Security Administration (SSA) quietly updated a public notice to reveal that the agency would be sharing “citizenship and immigration information” with the Department of Homeland ...
Biometric Companies

Rapid expansion of DHS’s citizenship database raises new election concerns

Over the past month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly transformed the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program into a central node of a rapidly expanding ...
PCGamesN

I am once again begging free VPN users to keep these privacy issues in mind following a new report

You use a VPN to keep your online activity a secret to everybody, from cybercriminals to data-hungry businesses and governments (I guess cybercriminals covered all the bases, actually). But new ...
Nextgov

DHS expanding citizenship system for voter verification, despite concerns about potential disenfranchisement

The Trump administration is pushing forward in its effort to build a searchable national citizenship system. The Department of Homeland Security says the revamped system can help enforce laws that ...
Forbes

CSR And Nonprofit Leaders Want To Embrace AI But Have Privacy Concerns

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim McClimon writes about philanthropy and corporate responsibility. A recent report entitled The AI Readiness Path: Key Insights ...
Searchenginejournal.com

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says Personalized AI Raises Privacy Concerns

In a recent interview with Stanford University, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman predicted that AI security will become the defining problem of the next phase of AI development, saying that AI security is one ...