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Do the Virginia State Police and local police departments have the right to collect data about where you go, and store it in a database for up to a year if you are not accused or even suspected of breaking any laws? Yes, according to the Virginia Supreme Court, which ruled that the police are allowed to use Automated License Plate Readers, which can photograph over 1,800 license plates per minute, and store the tag numbers, times and locations where the photos were taken in a searchable databas...

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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As the year draws to a close, it seems safe to declare that 2020 was not a good year for the enactment of state consumer privacy legislation. Below, we provide status updates on state privacy task force initiatives and studies that were active over the course of the year, along with a brief overview of proposed bills—and a handful of enacted laws—that are poised to change the consumer privacy law landscape in 2021. California Unsu...

I know grandmothers that have been detained in detention, low hanging fruit who check in with i.c.e. all the time. i know grandmothers that have tethers on their ankles unfortunately. my question to you, for one, as immigrant rights organizer, i found a great policy that i tried to get senators to support, the data act, which you sponsored and what that does is put oversight on i.c.e. and border patrol, and collects data of who they are doing traffic stops for, and thats how we can see if its ra...

Yeah, im from one of those immigrant communities you talk about, southwest detroit, born and raised in detroit, my grandfather came to southwest detroit in the 50s. just to make a better life for himself, and his family and me his grandson, which is working out, so really appreciate him for that. theres still families that are making life for themselves, creating that beautiful culture, a diverse culture that youre talking about but theres also, michigan being off the border, border patrol and i...

Permission, that indicates not only a lack of resource but lack of attention to privacy. and so so my reservation about your testimony today is that i dont see how you can change your business model unless there are specific rules of the road, your business model is to monetize user information to maximize profit over privacy. and unless there are specific rules and requirements, enforced by an outside agency, i have no assurance that these kinds of vegas commitment -- vague coe going to produce...

Tax dollars. how many would you say it just ticks you off the way they behaved? >> yes. >> yes. >> what are you going to do about it? >> among other things, weve cut the budget for this kind of travel. not only have we cut it, but the president by his own order has cut it. so were making quantum changes on how much can be spent on that. on top of that, data act, a piece of legislation is going to make it transparent to the public about where this money is being spent. we think thats most importa...

The flagrant abuse of tax dollars. how many would you say it ticks you off. what are you going to do about it? >> among other things, we have cut the budget for this kind of travel, not only we cut it but the president by his own order has cut it. we are making quantum changes in how much to be spent on that. on top of that data act is going to make it transparent to the public about where this money is being spent. we think that is most important. >> host: do you agree with it? do you want to c...

Dollars. how many would you say it ticks you off. what are you going to do about it? >> among other things, we have cut the budget for this kind of travel, not only we cut it but the president by his own order has cut it. we are making quantum changes in how much to be spent on that. on top of that data act is going to make it transparent to the public about where this money is being spent. we think that is most important. >> host: do you agree with it? do you want to continue? >> do you make th...

Dollars. how many would you say it ticks you off. what are you going to do about it? >> among other things, we have cut the budget for this kind of travel, not only we cut it but the president by his own order has cut it. we are making quantum changes in how much to be spent on that. on top of that data act is going to make it transparent to the public about where this money is being spent. we think that is most important. >> host: do you agree with it? do you want to continue? >> do you make th...