• Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act (GPS Act) was a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2011 that attempted to limit government surveillance...
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    innovation, American jobs, and a secure Internet. In June 2011, Wyden announced his Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act in partnership with Representative...
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  • share in public spaces—and, most certainly, any act of exhibitionism and publicity—is incompatible with a desire for personal privacy." Once something is...
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    heresy and heterodoxy may also carry out surveillance. Auditors carry out a form of surveillance. Surveillance can unjustifiably violate people's privacy and...
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    Cyberwarfare NSA report on privacy violations. What's a 'privacy violation' FISA Court finds NSA surveillance "deficient on statutory and constitutional grounds"...
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    constantly informing users on the importance of privacy, and considerations about technologies like geolocation. Computer company Microsoft patented in 2011...
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  • Freedom Act is a United States law authored by Representative Christopher Cox and Senator Ron Wyden that established national policy regarding federal and state...
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  • and transactions Biological traits, such as genetic material Residence and geographic records Privacy breach Location-based service and geolocation Web...
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  • Personal data (category Privacy)
    Privacy Privacy law Privacy laws of the United States Pseudonymity Obfuscation Self-sovereign identity Surveillance In other countries with privacy protection...
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    Mobile phone tracking (category Privacy)
    search warrant. Carpenter v. United States Cellphone surveillance Geofence warrant Geolocation GLONASS Russian "Global Navigation Satellite System" Google...
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  • Privacy", he says, "Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance." Internet and digital...
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  • a category of disclosures related to global surveillance. Memorandum of understanding between the NSA and the Israel SIGINT National Unit (ISNU) April...
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  • Internet and eliminating federal telephone taxes, among other ideas. On November 1, 2007, President Bush signed the "Internet Tax Freedom Act Amendment Act of...
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    Dishfire collects the following amounts of data: Geolocation data of more than 76,000 text messages and other travel information Over 110,000 names, gathered...
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    IDs called snowflakes, and geolocation data is added using 'Rockdove'. The URL shortener t.co then checks for a spam link and shortens the URL. Next,...
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  • that may have privacy implications, such as the ability to access a device's hardware features (including the camera and microphone), and personal data...
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  • Ethics of technology (category Ethics of science and technology)
    around GPS tracking devices and geolocation technologies and this contemporary technology's ethical ramifications on privacy is growing as the technology...
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  • Farming Act of 2018 was a proposed law to remove hemp (defined as cannabis with less than 0.3% THC) from Schedule I controlled substances and making it...
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    Tor (network) (category Internet privacy software)
    and Whonix. Tor has been praised for providing privacy and anonymity to vulnerable Internet users such as political activists fearing surveillance and...
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    requirement is geolocation outside the United States at time of Directive invocation; pursuant to Authorization or Order invocation, surveillance Directives...
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    XKeyscore (category Mass surveillance)
    access to VoIP and other, unspecified network protocols and additional forms of metadata such as Exif tags, which often include geolocation (GPS) data. The...
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  • expanded surveillance, which may be seen to violate the right to privacy and to jeopardize freedom of expression" July 2014: 'The right to privacy in the...
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    Pine Gap (category Buildings and structures in Alice Springs)
    joint Australian–United States satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base and Australian Earth station approximately 18 km (11 mi)...
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  • The Healthy Americans Act (HAA), also known as the Wyden-Bennett Act, is a Senate bill that had proposed to improve health care in the United States, with...
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  • have raised concerns about privacy, surveillance and copyright. AI-powered devices and services, such as virtual assistants and IoT products, continuously...
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  • Spatial cloaking (category Internet geolocation)
    Spatial cloaking is a privacy mechanism that is used to satisfy specific privacy requirements by blurring users’ exact locations into cloaked regions....
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  • National data protection authority (category Information privacy)
    Biometric Information Privacy Act CNIL Cookies (Internet) Data security Database Digital identity Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act Health data Identity...
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  • political beliefs, or geolocation data) or data about people, mostly from public records but sometimes sourced privately, and selling or licensing such...
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    OAKSTAR (category Mass surveillance)
    OAKSTAR is a secret internet surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. It was disclosed in 2013 as part of the leaks...
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  • Security Agency and local police. Some felt that the act was more conducive to surveillance than security after many of the privacy protections from...
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