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Fri 09/16:
Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Newly Revealed Police Software Surveilling Americans' Movements
California Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate a Virginia-based company revealed by the Associated Press to provide law enforcement agencies across the U.S. with access to cellphone tracking technology capable of mapping people’s movements “months back in time.” The company has previously declined to reveal how many police contracts it holds.) Fog Reveal is one of several services exploiting what some constitutional experts have come to call a Fourth Amendment “loophole.” Advertisement
Fog Data Science could not be immediately reached for comment. The notice for this process broadly defines the issue, encompassing virtually all forms of data collected commercially. Advertisement
Jessica Rich, the former director of the FTC’s consumer protection bureau, has joined others, meanwhile, in questioning whether the rulemaking is a “serious effort,” or merely an “attempt to push Congress to move forward” and pass a comprehensive privacy bill known as the American Data Privacy and Prevention Act (reported on in-depth by Gizmodo last month). Advertisement
Like the ADPPA, which is the first major privacy bill to be passed out of committee on Capitol Hill in two decades, other bills that would actually ban the practice of selling location data — such as the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act or the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act — have received no legitimate support from bicameral leadership in Congress. Or, conversely, should they be made to rely on the government itself to get justice on their behalf? (
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