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mobility reports, which uses location information to
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look) where places people are and aren’t going. Google
says the information is collected in aggregate and won’t
show actual numbers, just percent changes. And
through it all, Congress has been moving forward with
the EARN IT Act, which would eliminate end-to-end
encryption (as used in messaging apps including
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exploitation.
Still, some sort of privacy regulation is necessary, says
the EFF’s Stoltz. “Broadly, they take the right approach
to privacy, in that they start from a framework of
privacy being a human right, not something that a
person can sell or trade away,” he says.
“We really do need both baseline privacy rules ... [and]
robust antitrust law that says the concentration of
economic power is harmful, just like concentrations of
political power are harmful.”
Congress has
been moving
forward with
the EARN IT
Act, which
would
eliminate end-
to-end
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