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VICTORY: You Can Now Make Your Venmo Friends List Private. Here’s How.
It took two and a half years and one national security incident, but Venmo did it, folks: users now have privacy settings to hide their friends lists.EFF first pointed out the problem with Venmo friends lists in early 2019 with our "Fix It Already" campaign. While Venmo offered a...
Ring Changed How Police Request Door Camera Footage: What it Means and Doesn’t Mean
Amazon Ring has announced that it will change the way police can request footage from millions of doorbell cameras in communities across the country. Rather than the current system, in which police can send automatic bulk email requests to individual Ring users in an area of interest up to...
Maryland and Montana Pass the Nation’s First Laws Restricting Law Enforcement Access to Genetic Genealogy Databases
Last week, Maryland and Montana passed laws requiring judicial authorization to search consumer DNA databases in criminal investigations. These are welcome and important restrictions on forensic genetic genealogy searching (FGGS)—a law enforcement technique that has become increasingly common and impacts the genetic privacy of millions of Americans.Consumer personal genetics companies...