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Daily Dashboard | EFF, ACLU Take On Data Collection Practices Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are challenging the data-collection activities of Verizon Wireless, reports PC World. The advocacy groups say Verizon violates the federal Wiretap Act when it collects data on customers’ app usage, locations and web browsing and sells it to advertisers. Verizon says its actions are legal because it notifies customers of its practices and allows them to opt out, and the data cannot be tied to an accountholder. The groups claim, however, that the act of collection is the violation. “What you do after the fact is certainly important, but the violation of the Wiretap Act has already occurred,” said EFF lawyer Hanni Fakhoury.
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