Privacy News Round-Up #77 🌏️

• As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance (As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance - The Verge): Over 700,000 users have downloaded the app in the lead-up to the TikTok ban.

• A breach of Gravy Analytics’ huge trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions (A breach of Gravy Analytics' huge trove of location data threatens the privacy of millions | TechCrunch): A hack and data breach at location data broker Gravy Analytics is threatening the privacy of millions of people around the world whose smartphone apps unwittingly revealed their location data collected by the data giant.

• What the Supreme Court hearing about age verification could mean for you (Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton: What age-verification hearing could mean for you | Mashable…_gaMTc2OTQ2MDM4Ny4xNzM3MTEwMjE0*_ga_8TEVGCYPY5*MTczNzExMDIxMy4xLjAuMTczNzExMDIxMy4wLjAuMA…): The court’s decision could set a new precedent for free speech online.

• Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance (Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance | WIRED): Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat.

• EU Commission Liable for Breaching EU’s Own Data Protection Rules (EU Commission Liable for Breaching EU’s Own Data Protection Rules - Infosecurity Magazine): The EU Commission has been found liable for breaching the EU’s own data protection rules in a landmark ruling that could open the door to class action lawsuits in the region.