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From the @nytimes newsroom: "The indoor home-security camera was a popular gift for the holidays," writes @S_Evangelinahttps://nyti.ms/2SCMipQ 

"The decade’s theme couldn’t be more obvious: either via corruption, incompetence, or apathy, giant corporations routinely pay empty lip service to consumer privacy, before engaging in face plant after face plant," writes @KarlBode in @Motherboard @vicehttps://nyti.ms/2QN5Pl1 

The California Consumer Privacy Act is "filled with exceptions that could turn some seemingly broad protections into coarse sieves," writes @rachelerman in @APhttps://nyti.ms/36phmx6 

"California is effectively doing the duty that the Trump-era FCC has baldly flouted, and the effects look to be fanning out beyond its borders," writes @whitneykimball in @Gizmodohttps://nyti.ms/2rHHPHg 

The data "included a staggering array of personal information including email addresses, a list of cameras in the house, WiFi SSIDs and even health information including height, weight, gender, bone density and more," reports @georginatorbet in @engadgethttps://nyti.ms/2QE83mG 

"When data from a mental health app is shared or sold to other parties, a wealth of information can be used for purposes beyond the health needs of students," writes @thedeannapaul in @washingtonposthttps://nyti.ms/2tXCCvF 

"Addresses that were meant to be redacted were published in a file containing the names of those announced in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list," reports @stokel in @newscientisthttps://nyti.ms/2Qb7KAt 

"With no similar federal law on the horizon, this one is expected to set the standard nationally for some time to come," writes @rachaelmyrow for @NPRhttps://nyti.ms/2Q9Y5u3 

"It was the first time the technology - which is increasingly deployed in airports, offices and cafes in India - was used to screen the crowd at a political rally, according to technology analysts," reports @rinachandran in @Reutershttps://nyti.ms/37raiQH 

"Among public authorities, the appetite for facial recognition systems seems to know no bounds," @JanoschDelcker and @viaCristiano write in @Politicohttps://nyti.ms/2MHMr7B 

From the @nytimes newsroom: "The types and extent of personal data that companies currently make available vary widely," writes @natashanythttps://nyti.ms/2F6zhwF 

"In many ways, the content you watch on the big screen is watching you back," writes @eliblumenthal in @CNEThttps://nyti.ms/2u4GRFX 

"This holiday season, inboxes have been filled not only with promotional emails but also dozens of privacy notes," @kerrymflynn writes in @CNNbusinesshttps://nyti.ms/2Qt41gL 

"Along with other findings, NIST’s tests revealed that many of these algorithms were 10 to 100 times more likely to inaccurately identify a photograph of a black or East Asian face, compared with a white one," @sophiebushwick writes in @sciamhttps://nyti.ms/39iy7fC 

"The filing cites seven other hacking incidents including a harrowing account from Mississippi this December that described a hacker harassing an 8-year-old girl while pretending to be Santa Claus," reports @dmehro in @Gizmodohttps://nyti.ms/2QpoQJV 

"Think of each new Ring video doorbell, discount DNA test, WiFi-equipped clothes dryer, smart speaker and mobile phone as a new node on the world’s most advanced and pervasive effort at human monitoring," writes @AKingsburyNYThttps://nyti.ms/352R6XS 

"What many pro-privacy groups fear is a bifurcated world where citizens of democratic systems have privacy rights that far outpace those of people who live in authoritarian countries," writes @meghara in @BuzzFeedNewshttps://nyti.ms/2ZsqzCe 

"The dream of some administrators is a university where every student is a model student, adhering to disciplined patterns of behavior that are intimately quantified, surveilled and analyzed," writes @drewharwell in @WashingtonPosthttps://nyti.ms/361S0FH 

"Nothing is simple when it comes to the high-speed and largely opaque online data economy," writes @SamAugustDean in @latimeshttps://nyti.ms/2EZMtmW 

What’s the worst that could happen with my phone data? @stuartathompson and @cwarzel answered your questions.https://nyti.ms/35XwgdX