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Mandatory opt-out, data breach notification part of new privacy bill

Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Jan. 21, 2021. (credit: Stefani Reynolds – pool | Getty Images) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and a trio of her colleagues have reintroduced a bill to protect people’s privacy when their data is collected by big tech companies like […]

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One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth

Enlarge / Cars driving down I-80 in Berkeley, California, in May, 2018 when there were still places to go. (credit: David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images) There is a strange sort of symmetry in the world of personal data this week: one new report has identified a company that wants to sell the […]