Vehicles now collect a vast trove of personal data—from navigation history to text messages—that companies are increasingly looking to monetize, raising concerns about data privacy. Cars today are like smartphones that have numerous apps connected to the internet which collect and share large amounts of data. Most owners do not know the amount of personal…
Tech Company Says Cars Collect 25 Gigabits of Data per Hour, Making Them Targets for Hacking
Consumer Privacy Bill in Tennessee Raises Concerns, Sponsor Says It Solves Current Lack of Regulation
A bill in Tennessee with the intention of protecting consumers was set to be discussed in committees last week but due to time in the Senate and the sponsor requesting that discussion of the bill be held a week in the House, the bill has so far not moved anywhere. It is expected to be…
Online Credit Reports & How They Are Tracking Everything You Do
Imagine that you’ve been invited to join a friend on a weekend getaway. The only problem? Your dog has to stay home. Thankfully, you can solve this problem by hiring a pet sitter. Of course, you aren’t going to have anyone watch over your four-legged friend. You’re going to ask them some questions first. Primarily,…
Federal Health Agencies Displaying ‘Willful Blindness’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers: Dr. Robert Malone
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, senior staff at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were incredibly frustrated with the limitations of the Vaccine Adverse Event Recording System (VAERS) and were pushing the federal government to update the system for better analysis, said Dr. Robert Malone, a biochemist and vaccinologist. Malone, who helped develop the…
Tweak Your Tech Settings to Protect Your Privacy
So much of our sensitive personal data is being tracked and sold that trying to protect our privacy can seem like a pointless exercise. We can disable the location tracking on phone apps only to find new apps stalking us the next time we check. We can turn off personalized advertising and still get bombarded…
Data Collection from Athletes in Australia Needs to Be Regulated: Discussion Paper
The amount of personal and sensitive information collected from Australian professional athletes in recent years is allegedly beyond what is scientifically proven to benefit them, a science academy and law school paper has argued. “There are significant limitations to what technology can measure and infer about athletes,” said Jacqueline Alderson, tech director of the University of Western…
Google’s New Deal With Hospital Chain Raises Concerns Over Big Tech’s Data Collection
News Analyses Google and HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading healthcare companies, announced a multi-year deal on Tuesday, prompting new concerns over Big Tech’s massive data collection. The partnership between the two companies is designed to “help create a secure and dynamic data analytics platform for HCA Healthcare and enable the development of next-generation…
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