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[?]Nonilex » 🌐
@Nonilex@masto.ai

The ruling finds that did not follow this . The judge wrote that the vast majority of the nearly 47,300 taxpayer addresses the shared with in August were disclosed without the IRS confirming that ICE provided a valid address for the person whose records it was seeking.

    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
    @Nonilex@masto.ai

    Federal requires that before the hands over a taxpayer’s address, a requesting agency must first provide the IRS with the name & address of the person it’s looking for. The requirement exists to ensure that the government can access confidential tax records only for individuals it has already specifically identified.

      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
      @Nonilex@masto.ai

      A federal judge has found that the violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with enforcement officials last summer.
      
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued the ruling Thursday as part of ongoing litigation over a data-sharing arrangement between the IRS & the .

        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        Judge rules broke ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving data
        
A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency & federal authorities.


        washingtonpost.com/business/20

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          [?]noyb.eu » 🌐
          @noybeu@mastodon.social

          🇪🇺 It could soon become easier for companies to train their on your data – at least if the Commission's proposal passes. 🤖

          👤 featuring data protection lawyer and AI specialist Kleanthi Sardeli

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            [?]knoppix » 🌐
            @knoppix95@mastodon.social

            Age verification laws force platforms to collect IDs, biometrics or behavioral data, directly conflicting with data minimization principles. 🔍

            Recurring checks and stored proof for regulators create breach-prone archives, exposing everyone—not just minors—to surveillance risks. 🔒

            🔗 spectrum.ieee.org/age-verifica

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              [?]Oakland Privacy » 🌐
              @oaklandprivacy@mastodon.social

              A great broad overview of privacy laws in the US. Here are some highlights from the article. To read the full article: theverge.com/column/882516/pri


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                [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                I analyse language policing demanded in a video that crossed my feed.🧐
                👉 philosophics.blog/2026/02/19/h
                This woman calls out corporate media for soft-pedalling charges against alleged culprits and victims, or as she insists, rapists and children. Her request is not neutral.

                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                  agents arrived at the hub just south of with a search warrant seeking documents related to the in , including: all ballots, tabulator tapes from the scanners that tally the votes, electronic ballot images created when the ballots were counted & then recounted, & all voter rolls. The county has filed a motion seeking the return of the seized materials.

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    They also want the judge to order that the disclose an inventory of all documents & records seized, the identity of anyone who has accessed the records outside of those involved in the criminal investigation, any copying of the records & all efforts to secure the information.

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      The motion filed late Sunday asks the judge to “order reasonable limits on the government’s use of the seized data” & to prohibit the government from using the data for purposes other than the criminal investigation cited in the search warrant affidavit. That includes prohibiting any efforts to use it for voter roll maintenance, election administration or enforcement.

                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                        The & other organizations are asking a judge to protect personal voter information that was seized by the .…

                        residents entrusted the with their “sensitive personal information” when they registered to , & the Jan 28 seizure of ballots & other documents from the hub “breached that guarantee, infringed constitutional protections of , & interfered with the right to vote,” the orgs said…


                        apnews.com/article/fbi-georgia

                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                          There is little evidence that undocumented have attempted to participate in US elections, nor is there a link between undocumented immigrants & higher levels of crime.

                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                            In a statement, a spox said that under the data-sharing agreement, “the government is finally doing what it should have all along.”

                            “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety & terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, & identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” spox said.

                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                              Charles Littlejohn, an contractor, pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the returns of Donald & other wealthy individuals.​
                              
Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison. Trump in January sued the IRS for $10 billion in damages related to the Littlejohn leak. [For he but not for thee]

                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                When the shared the addresses with , it also inadvertently disclosed private information for thousands of erroneously, a mistake only recently discovered, said people familiar….
                                
The affected individuals could be entitled to financial compensation for each time their was improperly shared. And government officials can personally face stiff & penalties for sharing information.

                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                  Federal have since blocked the data-sharing arrangement, holding that it violates ’ rights, though the appealed those rulings.
                                  
Before the agreement was struck down, requested the addresses of 1.2 million individuals from the . The tax agency responded with data on 47,000 individuals, acc/to court records.

                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                    mandates strict protections of the identities of , including sharing data within the . Undocumented have for years paid with assurances that doing so would not result in them being targeted by enforcement.

                                    But in a controversial decision, , which oversees the , in April 2025 agreed to provide with the names & addresses of individuals the admin believed to be in the country illegally.

                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                      The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with enforcement officials, acc/to 3 people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a intended to protect taxpayer data.
                                      
The erroneous disclosure was only recently discovered, the people said. The is working with officials from , & on the admin’s response.

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                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                        This has to be a Easter Egg.

                                        “improperly” [accidentally-on-purpose] disclosed tax data to
                                        
The agency only recently discovered the “mistake” & is working with other federal agencies on a response.


                                        washingtonpost.com/business/20

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                                          [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                          @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                          Nineteen civil society groups warn Switzerland’s plan to expand data retention would mean mass, long-term metadata storage and decryption support from online services, with major privacy and rights implications 🕵️

                                          They urge the government to drop blanket retention and align with top EU human rights standards instead ⚖️

                                          🔗 edri.org/our-work/open-letter-

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                                            [?]ResearchBuzz: Firehose » 🌐
                                            @researchbuzz_firehose@rbfirehose.com

                                            Ars Technica: “ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition. “A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,’ which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial recognition technology.”

                                            https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/08/ars-technica-ice-out-of-our-faces-act-would-ban-ice-and-cbp-use-of-facial-recognition/

                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                            Overall, the family’s investments in the past year have increased the family’s net worth by more than $1 billion, at least on paper.

                                            At the same time that the crypto deal came together, the Emirati government secured an agreement with the Trump admin for the export of hundreds of thousands of advanced to power .

                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                              , through an entity called DT Marks DEFI LLC, effectively controls a large stake in , which generated $57 million for him just as the company was starting up, acc/to his financial disclosure report last year. Revenues from the company are also shared with , the son of , who is Trump’s envoy, among other partners.

                                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                That maneuver alone turned into one of the world’s largest issuers of — a type of that maintains a price of $1. The deal was poised to generate tens of millions of dollars a year in revenue for World Liberty [].

                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                  The investment in was one of 2 large transactions last year involving the Trumps’ firm & the government. At a conference in Dubai in May, World Liberty executives disclosed that , another company run by Sheikh Tahnoon, was using $2 billion worth of a digital currency issued by World Liberty, known as a , to make a large investment.

                                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                    That agreement gave the Emirati-backed firm a 49% stake in . 2 top lieutenants to the UAE’s government adviser, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, joined the board of World Liberty.

                                                    Asked about the terms of the deal, including the board seats, the timing & the size of the investment, Wachsman said, “We made the deal in question because we strongly believe that it was what was best for our company as we continue to grow.”

                                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                      The family’s business dealings with the Emiratis have blurred the line between government & private enterprise, alarming experts & congressional .

                                                      Sheikh Tahnoon, a member of the royal family, has been a major intermediary with the for over a decade on matters varying from combating to sharing advanced computer . He runs a sprawling investment empire that includes G42, a tech firm that has become a powerhouse in .

                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                        The investment, reported earlier by WSJ, was confirmed on Sunday by a spox for the Trumps’ company, .

                                                        Days before his father’s inauguration in Jan 2025, Eric Trump, the president’s middle son, signed the agreement with the investment firm for a $500M investment in World Liberty, WSJ reported. David Wachsman, a World Liberty spox, confirmed the transaction in a statement to NYT.

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                                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                          Firm Quietly Took Stake in Family’s Company

                                                          The $500 million agreement raises new concerns about the propriety of the president negotiating with his own partners.

                                                          An investment firm tied to the UAE purchased nearly HALF of the Trump family’s company last year, making the family business partners with the UAE even as Trump negotiated foreign policy matters with the nation.


                                                          nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/poli

                                                            [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                            @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                            I've long considered the connexion of Law and Morality to be weak and tenuous.

                                                            philosophics.blog/2026/01/31/w

                                                            After listening to this survival-cannibalism-on-the-high-seas story by Judge Coleridge in 1870 and the attendant murder convictions, my opinion gets categorically worse. Pictures at 11.

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                                                              [?]ResearchBuzz: Firehose » 🌐
                                                              @researchbuzz_firehose@rbfirehose.com

                                                              CNBC: Google settles Google Assistant privacy lawsuit for $68 million. “Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that ⁠its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating ‍their privacy.”

                                                              https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/cnbc-google-settles-google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-for-68-million/

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                                                              [?]ResearchBuzz: Firehose » 🌐
                                                              @researchbuzz_firehose@rbfirehose.com

                                                              Tubefilter: Woman who went viral for texting and driving is suing YouTube and Meta. “The suit asks a judge to issue a court order that will force YouTube, Meta, Reddit, and news outlets to remove video of G.P. from their websites. It also seeks monetary damages from [the car’s owner], and cites violations of the Washington Privacy Act, the federal wiretapping law, misappropriation of her name […]

                                                              https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/29/tubefilter-woman-who-went-viral-for-texting-and-driving-is-suing-youtube-and-meta/

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                                                              [?]Wen » 🌐
                                                              @Wen@mastodon.scot

                                                              Guilty until proven Innocent, its the Mahmoud way

                                                              The Met’s approach to live facial recognition is being challenged in the Hight Court this week

                                                              theregister.com/2026/01/27/hig

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                                                                [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                                                @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                                                A new EPIC report warns that surveillance and ICE-linked enforcement are deterring people from seeking medical care, fueling a US “health privacy crisis.” 🩺
                                                                Data brokers, ad-tech tracking, and law enforcement access to health data are eroding trust and driving patients away from treatment. ⚠️

                                                                🔗 wired.com/story/surveillance-a
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                                                                  [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                                                  @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                                                  ICE’s Mobile Fortify facial recognition app misidentified a detained woman twice in an Oregon raid 👤
                                                                  ICE still calls the app a definitive way to determine immigration status, even over documents 📱
                                                                  Raises major concerns about wrongful targeting, due process, and biometric policing ⚖️

                                                                  🔗 404media.co/ices-facial-recogn

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                                                                    [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                                                    @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                                                    Palantir is developing a mapping tool for ICE that scores targets & flags “high-density” deportation areas 📍
                                                                    Internal docs show data flows from HHS into ICE systems via Palantir’s ELITE platform 🧩
                                                                    Raises serious privacy, oversight & civil liberties concerns ⚖️

                                                                    🔗 404media.co/elite-the-palantir

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                                                                      [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                                                      @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                                                      Ireland drafts new surveillance bill expanding police powers to intercept encrypted messages 🔐
                                                                      Includes legal basis for spyware use & device scanning tech 🕵️‍♀️
                                                                      Civil rights groups warn of normalization of extraordinary powers ⚖️

                                                                      🔗 theregister.com/2026/01/21/ire

                                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                        @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                        ’s request was part of a nearly yearlong fight in which the admin has sought ’ private data from across the country. Numerous states, including , have not complied, & the has sued them.

                                                                          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                          @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                          “Third, allow the Division of the Department of Justice to access rolls to confirm that ’s voter registration practices comply with federal law,” she wrote. Minnesota’s secretary of state, Steve Simon, a Democrat, swiftly rejected the demand, calling it an “outrageous attempt to coerce Minnesota into giving the federal government private data on millions of in violation of & .”

                                                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                            After federal agents shot & killed a in for the 2nd time this month, AG sent a letter to Gov of that outlined what she described as three “simple steps” to “bring back law & order.”

                                                                            Her final step, however, seemed to have little to do with immigration or the state’s fraud scandal, the stated reasons for the federal government’s presence in Minnesota.

                                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                              The Admin Is Demanding Minnesota’s Rolls

                                                                              The has urged to hand over voters’ private data. It is part of a national push that has raised concerns about the Trump admin’s motives.


                                                                              nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/poli

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                                                                                [?]Winbuzzer » 🌐
                                                                                @winbuzzer@mastodon.social

                                                                                winbuzzer.com/2026/01/23/micro

                                                                                Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Keys, Breaking from Apple Privacy Stance

                                                                                  [?]Philosophics » 🌐
                                                                                  @microglyphics@mastodon.social

                                                                                  Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times. After writing about 'The Trouble with Facts' yesterday, I realised that the polysemy of 'facts' introduces category errors. Not all facts are created equal.
                                                                                  👉 philosophics.blog/2026/01/23/r

                                                                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                    Defund , Distort , Mock

                                                                                    It’s not just about cuts to .
                                                                                    It’s about .

                                                                                    By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum


                                                                                    theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/

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