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Vermont makes waves on data privacy

{beacon}   welcome to tech fridaynew joint project, the hill and Pluribus News Covers technology policy across government. Sign up to receive The Hill Newsletter here. Would you like to receive this newsletter? Please let us know. Vermont passes landmark privacy law image ©AP News Big policies can come from small places. Same goes for […]

Vermont Legislature passes one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country

The Democratic-controlled Vermont Legislature has passed one of the nation’s strongest data privacy measures aimed at cracking down on the use of online personal data by companies that violate certain privacy rules. It will be possible to file civil lawsuits against companies. But Republican Gov. Phil Scott has concerns about how parts of the bill […]

What massive health care cyberattack at Ascension means for your privacy, security

Ascension, one of the largest health systems in the United States with 140 hospitals, faced a significant cyberattack that disrupted operations. The attack reportedly took patient record systems offline, forcing medical staff to rely on paper records. This incident is a stark reminder that America’s health care system is vulnerable to cyber threats. Click to […]

Congress is working on a federal privacy law. Here’s why we need one

Don’t look now, but Congress is preparing to pass a federal privacy law. American Privacy Rights Act A collection of state-level laws in the United States, single federal law It provides new protections ranging from regulating “dark patterns” that manipulate consumers to prohibiting unauthorized sharing of sensitive information. That’s a big deal.The average American’s online […]

BRIAN REARDON: Biden’s SEC Is After Your Privacy

A new program initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will collect the details of every securities trade in the country, including the personal information of the investors involved. The good news is a recent district court decision declared a similar overreach by the Treasury Department to be an unconstitutional data grab. The bad […]

TN and GA Adopt 2A Privacy Acts to Bar Data Collection on Firearm Sales

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) and Gov. Bill Lee (R-Tenn.) this week passed the Second Amendment Privacy Act, which would ban the use of credit card merchant codes to collect data on retail firearms buyers. signed. Kemp signed HB 1018 on Monday, and Lee Signed SB 2223 on tuesday. Their signature brings the total number of […]

FTC awarding more than $5M in refunds to Ring customers over privacy settlement

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Distribution has started More than $5 million in refunds were issued to Amazon Ring customers on Tuesday, as the company reached a settlement with the tech giant over claims that Ring failed to protect consumer privacy. In a 2023 complaint, the FTC alleged that Ring allowed its employees and contractors to […]

The AI camera stripping away privacy in the blink of an eye

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