How to Stop the Abuse of Location Data; The New York Times, October 16, 2019

Jeff Glueck, The New York Times; How to Stop the Abuse of Location Data

There are no formal rules for what is ethical — or even legal — in the location data business. That needs to change.

"Companies should have to maintain data with adequate security protections, including encryption at rest and in transit. Employees at companies that collect data on millions of consumers should undergo privacy and ethics training. Companies should require clients and other people who use the data to promise that they will not use the tech and data for unethical or discriminatory practices — and should penalize those that act unethically. Regulation should force companies to create ethics committees where management and employees must discuss their privacy and ethical data use policies regularly."

Your Cellphone Privacy Rights May Depend on This Supreme Court Case; Mother Jones, June 9, 2017

Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones; Your Cellphone Privacy Rights May Depend on This Supreme Court Case

"There’s a good chance that while you’re reading this, your cellphone is either in your pocket or within arm’s reach. That phone helps produce tons of identifying data about you—and where you are located. The future privacy of that information may depend on a landmark case that the Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear. Carpenter v. United States asks whether the government can get records from phone companies showing the location of customers without first obtaining a warrant. It centers on a man in Michigan named Timothy Carpenter who was convicted of six robberies after his phone company turned over his location data to authorities.

Carpenter’s case could have broad ramifications for people across the country. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that the future of surveillance law hinges on how the Supreme Court rules in this case,” Orin Kerr, a professor at the George Washington University Law School, wrote in the Washington Post. Here are some more reasons why you should be following this one:"