Privacy

The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo arguing that a provision in the 1960 Civil Rights Act, requiring election officials to retain voter records for 22 months, grants the Attorney General the authority to obtain copies of these records.

The report highlights that children are aware of multiple methods to bypass these checks, either through personal experience or peer knowledge.

The FTC's complaint detailed how Kochava collected and sold geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices, enabling clients to track users' movements to and from sensitive locations such as health clinics and places of worship.

Noah M. Kenney, founder of consultancy Digital 520, conducted research using voter data from Travis County, Texas, and Robeson County, North Carolina.

The investigation by Bloomberg revealed that these trackers, commonly used for website analytics and bug identification, were misconfigured on healthcare exchange sites, leading to the collection and sharing of personal data.