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HAYLEY TSUKAYAMA

Last updated 19:18, May 18 2017

Google’s going to weave AI into every part of the company.

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MARK SCOTTMAY 18, 2017

Europe’s love affair with Facebook may be coming to an end.

On Thursday, the European Union’s powerful antitrust chief fined the social network 110 million euros, or about $122 million, for giving misleading statements during the company’s $19 billion acquisition of the internet messaging service WhatsApp in 2014.

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Google is taking targeted advertising to a whole new level.

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Facebook published its “privacy principles” and will roll out educational videos ahead of a sweeping data protection law that will take effect in May.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review in Carpenter v. United States, a case concerning the privacy of cell phone location data. At issue is data that can be used to track cell phone users and whether police are required to obtain warrants to conduct these searches. A lower court ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not require officers to get a warrant before they obtain location records from a cell phone provider. In State v. Earls, EPIC successfully argued that a warrant is required under the New Jersey constitution. EPIC will file an amicus in Carpenter supporting the application of the warrant standard to obtain location data.

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A federal judge in Washington, DC has issued a final order granting EPIC substantial attorney’s fees in a long-running case against the Department of Homeland Security. EPIC sued the DHS in 2012 for information about a secret program to monitor Internet traffic. The “Cyber Pilot” program applied originally to defense contractors, but an executive order dramatically expanded the program, raising concerns about violations of federal wiretap law. EPIC’s lawsuit produced the release of several thousand pages on the program. EPIC sought attorneys fees for the successful litigation, which the DHS opposed. In November, Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that EPIC was entitled to attorney’s fees because it “substantially prevailed in [the] litigation” and added “to the fund of information that citizens may use in making vital political choices.” On Monday, Judge Kessler confirmed that decision and awarded EPIC nearly $100,000 in fees—the largest such award in EPIC’s history.

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The Pew Research Center has released a report surveying experts about the security implications of the Internet of Things. The survey found a broad consensus that growth in the IoT will bring with it an increased risk of real-world physical harm. “The essential problem is that it will be impractical for people to disconnect,” said EPIC President Marc Rotenberg in the survey. “Cars and homes will become increasingly dependent on internet connectivity. The likely consequence will be more catastrophic events.” The ACM recently released a Statement of IoT Privacy and Security, which lists principles for protecting privacy and security in IoT devices. EPIC has been at the forefront of policy work on the Internet of Things, recommending safeguards for connected cars, “smart homes,” consumer products, and “always on” devices.

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PEW report:

BY LEE RAINIE AND JANNA ANDERSON

<http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/06/06/the-internet-of-things-connectivity-binge-what-are-the-implications/>

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The case of Reality Winner, the 25-year-old woman arrested and accused of linking classified information, shows the limits of your privacy at work.

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A federal district court has held that firing public school teachers based on the results of a secret algorithm is unconstitutional. The case, Houston Federation of Teachers vs. Houston Independent School District, concerned a commercial software company’s proprietary appraisal system that was used to score teachers. Teachers could not correct their scores, independently reproduce their scores, or learn more than basic information about how the algorithm worked. “When a public agency adopts a policy of making high stakes employment decisions based on secret algorithms incompatible with minimum due process, the proper remedy is to overturn the policy,” the court wrote. EPIC recently filed a complaint asking the FTC to stop the secret scoring of young tennis players. EPIC has pursued several cases on “Algorithmic Transparency,” including one for rating travelers and another for assessing guilt or innocence.

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