Laws
This is the main right in the Constitution that enables people to have privacy.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This social media app faced concerns about sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government, triggering calls for a national security review.
Tik Tok
A type of AI that can identify and measure facial features in an image.
Facial Recognition or Scanning
It was the first law ever to address the issue of the government's collection of one's data.
What is the U.S. Privacy Act of 1974?
In 2010, this company’s Street View cars collected data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, including sensitive personal information.
This type of AI system learns from data to make decisions and improve over time without explicit programming.
Machine-Learning
A law created in 2000 that aimed to protect the privacy of children under 12.
What is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)?
In 2016, this ride-sharing company concealed a data breach affecting 57 million customers and drivers.
Uber
A data processing technique that removes or modifies personally identifiable information (PII) to prevent individuals from being identified
Anonymization
A 1996 law that regulates health information privacy rights.
What is HIPAA?
A political consulting firm harvested data from millions of Facebook profiles without user consent, attempting to influence voters in political campaigns.
Cambridge Analytica
A privacy principle that limits the amount of personal information collected, processed, and stored to what is strictly necessary for a specific purpose.
Data minimization
A European law that requires websites to ask permission to use one's data.
What is the European Union (EU) cookie law?
A company that compiled various photos to create facial recognition software that was used by law enforcement unethically.
Clearview AI
A mathematical method for protecting individuals' privacy when their data is used in a dataset
Differential privacy (DP)