Privacy – Link(s) of the Day

How the LAPD abortion squad went after women and doctors in pre-Roe L.A.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the LAPD’s abortion squad hunted down women getting the procedure and the people performing them.

Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.Conn...

Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

What HIPAA Isn’t

Word of mouth has turned a narrow health-records law into a supposed health-privacy Bill of Rights.

Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation

Tim Hortons is logging detailed location data of customers through its app — and many may not realize it’s happening at all

Column: Is a supermarket discount coupon worth giving away your privacy?

All companies doing business in California are required by the state’s new privacy law to disclose what they know about customers and how that information is used.

Uh-oh: Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system

In China, scoring citizensâ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law.

Source: www.fastcompany.com/90394048/uh-oh-silicon-valley-is-building-a-chinese-style-social-credit-system

L.A. County deputies stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on the 5 Freeway in hopes of their next drug bust – Los Angeles Times

A team of sheriff’s deputies patrolling the Grapevine in northern L.A. County disproportionately stops and searches Latino drivers compared with other motorists, a Times investigation has found.

Source: www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-latino-drug-stops-grapevine-20181004-htmlstory.html

Verizon will stop selling real-time location data to third-party brokers

The industry-wide practice has drawn scrutiny in recent weeks

Source: www.theverge.com/2018/6/19/17478934/verizon-selling-real-time-location-data-third-party-securus-wyden

How Bad is GDPR for Photographers?

The EU has a new data protection law, the so-called GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, or as we Germans like to call it: “Datenschutzgrundverordnung” (Gesundheit!). The rules took effect on May 25th and so far it’s pretty chaotic: in the EU we cannot reach some newspapers in the outside world because they

Source: petapixel.com/2018/05/30/how-bad-is-gdpr-for-photographers/