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-- 2017 --

July 24: A federal judge in DC declined to block President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission from collecting data on voters from 50 states in a ruling on Monday
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/judge-denies-restraining-order-on-voter-data/index.html

October 11: Judge says US govt has 'no right to rummage' through anti-Trump protest website logs

Court tells hosting biz to protect identities of netizens
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/11/trump_protest_website_privacy_latest/


-- 2018 --

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April 3:
President Trump signed a bill on Monday repealing internet privacy rules passed last year by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that would have given internet users greater control over what service providers can do with their data, a White House spokeswoman confirmed.

The FCC regulations would have required broadband companies to get permission from their customers in order to use their “sensitive” data — including browsing history, geolocation and financial and medical information — to create targeted advertisements.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/327107-trump-signs-internet-privacy-repeal


April 17: Supreme Court dismisses major privacy rights case ... Microsoft had been battling the US Justice Department in court for years, fighting against a government order to hand over data stored on foreign servers. The Supreme Court had taken on the case, but it dismissed it Tuesday, after the government told the justices that new legislation rendered the case moot.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/17/technology/microsoft-doj-cloud-act/index.html

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May 20: The US Department of Transportation recently announced that 10 state and local governments have been selected to test advanced drone applications as part of a program to ease them into American skies.

The selected cities are San Diego, California; Reno, Nevada; Bismark, North Dakota; Memphis, Tennessee; Durant, Oklahoma; Herndon, Virginia; Topeka, Kansas; Raleigh, North Carolina; Fort Myers, Florida, and Fairbanks, Alaska.

The drones will be able to fly over people’s heads, at night, and outside the view of the drone’s operator. This will free up drones to do everything from deliver food and medicine to inspect critical infrastructure.
https://myfox8.com/2018/05/20/the-trump-administration-selects-10-cities-to-test-drones-and-one-of-them-is-in-north-carolina/


July 27: The Trump administration is talking to Facebook and Google about potential rules for online privacy

The Trump administration is crafting a proposal to protect Web users’ privacy, aiming to blunt global criticism that the absence of strict federal rules in the United States has enabled data mishaps at Facebook and others in Silicon Valley.

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Over the past month, the Commerce Department has been huddling with representatives of tech giants such as Facebook and Google, Internet providers including AT&T and Comcast, and consumer advocates, according to four people familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/07/27/trump-administration-is-working-new-proposal-protect-online-privacy/?utm_term=.05a9a6183a8c

July 30: Previously undisclosed TSA program tracks unsuspecting passengers

Before people board a plane and are watched by federal air marshals, officials use information from the intelligence community and their previous travel patterns to help choose whom to target, according to the TSA official. The official added the program has been in existence in some form since 2010, and said Congress is aware and provides "robust" oversight.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/29/politics/tsa-passenger-tracking/index.html

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September 17: The Trump administration wants more spying power — and Congress appears poised to give it to them. 

Touting national security to justify spying powers that jeopardize our constitutional rights is a strategy that we have seen before. It happened with the Patriot Act after 9/11, and members of Congress and government officials are now employing similar arguments again. This time it involves a drone bill that some in Congress are pressing to be sneakily inserted into a larger piece of legislation that could be considered this month. 
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/congress-poised-give-trump-administration-powerful

September 25: The Trump administration took new, preliminary steps toward crafting a nationwide data privacy policy, issuing a request for comments from interested stakeholders on a proposed framework put forward Tuesday by the Commerce Department.

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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive-branch agency responsible for advising the president on telecommunications issues, made public a 7-part proposal that noted the drawbacks of a "nationally and globally fragmented regulatory landscape."

The proposal -- a product of months-long consultations with dozens of industry, privacy and government groups -- lays out goals related to transparency, security and control of personal data that is collected by internet companies.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-white-house-data-privacy-proposal-national-telecommunications-information-administration/

-- 2019 --

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March 14: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin suggested Thursday he will protect President Donald Trump’s privacy if he receives a request from House Democrats for Trump’s tax returns.

At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Mnuchin was asked whether he would meet a request for Trump’s past tax returns. Chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., is expected to formally ask for those as Democrats seek to shed light on Trump’s financial dealings and potential conflicts of interest.

“We will examine the request and we will follow the law … and we will protect the president as we would protect any taxpayer” regarding their right to privacy, Mnuchin said.

Neal is one of only three congressional officials authorized under a rarely used 1924 law to make a written request for anyone’s tax returns to the Treasury secretary. The law says the Treasury chief “shall furnish” the requested material to members of the committee for them to examine behind closed doors. But Mnuchin did not specifically say he would turn them over.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/14/steven-mnuchin-tells-congress-hell-protect-president-trumps-tax-returns/3169417002/


-- 2020 --

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