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Privacy
Mar 28 2018
Headline Roundup
Facebook Will Redesign Privacy Controls
Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as it reels from criticisms over its data practices and faces tighter European regulations in the coming months.
CBS News (Online)


Aug 16 2013
Headline Roundup
NSA Broke Privacy Rules
Washington Post


Aug 04 2020
Background
Privacy & Technology
“The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought.”
—U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in Riley v. California (2014)
Technological innovation has outpaced our privacy protections. As a result, our digital footprint can be tracked by the
ACLU
Aug 18 2016
Opinion
The Privacy Debate is On
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, set to star as Edward Snowden in a new biopic from director Oliver Stone, says it’s a good time to talk about what it means to live in a democracy. hen director Oliver Stone called and asked him to play the lead in a movie about Edward Snowden, who exposed massive government surveillance programs, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was excited and nervous.
Not because he was
CNET
Jul 13 2019
Headline Roundup
Facebook Fined $5 Billion for Privacy Violations
Facebook is being fined $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for violating a 2011 agreement on user privacy rules.
While some media opinions argue that the fine is a sufficient penalty, others disagree.
Fox News (Opinion)


Jul 05 2022
Analysis
Roe's overturn is tech's privacy apocalypse
America's new abortion reality is turning tech firms' data practices into an active field of conflict — a fight that privacy advocates have long predicted and company leaders have long feared.
Why it matters: A long legal siege in which abortion-banning states battle tech companies, abortion-friendly states and their own citizens to gather criminal evidence is now a near certainty.
Axios
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Apr 13 2020
Background
Privacy laws of the United States
The privacy laws of the United States deal with several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into their private affairs, discloses their private information, publicizes them in a false light, or appropriates their name for personal gain.[1] Public figures
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