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April 23, 2025 | 5:52 PM

Pa. House advances, expands data consumer privacy bill

By Jordan Wilkie/WITF

March 19, 2025 | 3:52 PM

Pa. House advances online data privacy, cryptocurrency bills

Both bills will likely face amendments on the House floor.

By Jordan Wilkie/WITF

February 18, 2025 | 4:53 PM

Better than nothing? Pa. considers data privacy bill friendly to companies, called weak by consumer advocates

The bill is modeled on legislation supported by Amazon and Microsoft and is the dominant data privacy model in the country.

By Jordan Wilkie/WITF

July 11, 2022 | 10:56 AM

Privacy advocates fear Google will be used to prosecute abortion seekers

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, privacy advocates fear Google will provide users’ data to authorities who may try to target people seeking abortions.

By Bobby Allen/ NPR

August 1, 2021 | 8:10 PM

Zoom agrees to settle a privacy lawsuit for $85 million

The class action suit by several Zoom users alleges the company shared personal data and allowed hackers to disrupt meetings.

By Catherine Whelan/NPR

April 13, 2021 | 3:00 PM

Smart Talk: Vaccine passports raise privacy concerns

By Merideth Bucher/WITF

February 19, 2020 | 6:32 PM

Complaints about privacy follow switch to paper ballots

State lawmakers raised those complaints Wednesday with Gov. Tom Wolf’s top elections officials during an Appropriations Committee hearing.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

January 2, 2020 | 4:42 AM

New laws in six states you should know about in 2020

There are some new frontiers like groundbreaking laws concerning Internet user privacy and the classification of contract workers in California

By Acacia Squires/NPR

December 2, 2019 | 1:56 PM

For banks, data on your spending habits could be a gold mine

Banks want to join the likes of Google and Facebook by turning data they already have on your spending habits into extra revenue by identifying likely customers for retailers.

By Anick Jesdanun/The Associated Press

Updated: 2019-09-28 12:26:06

Researchers question Census Bureau’s new approach to privacy

The U.S. Census Bureau is creating tighter privacy controls in response to new fears that census answers could reveal the identities of people who fill out the questionnaires.

By Jennifer McDermott and Mike Scheider/The Associated Press

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