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The concept of protecting user data from collection and misuse, including the use of VPNs and intermediaries to reduce linkability.
ICE’s internal personnel vetting for prospective employees follows a formal background-investigation and adjudication process after a tentative offer is accepted, while its public-facing worksite veri...
Double Counter does collect and store users’ IP addresses and device/browser fingerprint data to detect alternate accounts and block VPNs, retaining that data for up to 24 months and encrypting it dur...
The Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) is a publicly accessible database that lets users search for people currently in ICE or certain custody using either an Alien Registration Number and date of ...
historically presented itself as a messaging service that does not retain users’ chat content and only preserves limited account metadata for short windows — a posture that reduced exposure of stored ...
Yes — DuckDuckGo can be legally compelled to disclose user data to authorities, but the scope of what it can actually hand over is constrained by the company’s operational practices: the company repea...
is used without logging in, and independent explainers report that the service still collects technical and session metadata — most consistently: IP address, device and browser details, timestamps and...
A search for " martadjaja" surfaces multiple companies and entities named Selfin across jurisdictions—ranging from a -registered to n financial firms and / startups—but none of the provided reporting ...
State DMVs are required by federal to capture and keep images of source documents used to prove identity and lawful status, but the federal regulations do not prescribe a single national retention per...
’s use of listening data to power personalized algorithms has sparked controversies across three broad areas: listener experience and cultural diversity, artist economics and creative incentives, and ...
Civil‑liberties groups have mounted immediate legal and administrative pushback against DHS’s expanded biometric entry‑exit rule, filing litigation and organizing class actions while lodging formal pu...
Platforms publicly promise short retention for certain Grok/Grok-on‑X artifacts — for example, xAI says Private Chat data is deleted from its systems within 30 days — but multiple technical and legal ...
Ad conversion pixels such as bat.bing.com are small JavaScript tags (commonly called UET for Microsoft Ads) that load a vendor script on every page, create a client-side event queue, and push page vie...
The State‑to‑State (S2S) Verification Service is a pointer-based system run by AAMVA that uses the State Pointer Exchange Services (SPEXS) platform to let participating DMVs check whether an applicant...
Yes — laws and enforcement approaches differ markedly between countries and within federations, and those differences extend to how governments treat circumvention (for example, using VPNs or other wo...
The principal law governing national digital identity in Australia is the Digital ID Act 2024, supported by associated legislative instruments (Accreditation Rules, Data Standards, Digital ID Rules) a...
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) administers Air Passenger Duty (APD) and relies on airline and operator passenger data to calculate, collect and enforce that tax from aircraft operators; airlin...
Providing false age information online sits at the intersection of criminal law, civil/regulatory enforcement, and privacy policy: an individual who lies about their age generally faces little to no p...