An op-ed for The New York Times states that there are steps tech companies and regulators can take to return some degree of privacy back to Americans, beginning with securing people’s home address data. It argues that cleaning up the information displayed by search engines is an immediate first step to safeguarding location data. While home address data has not always been seen as a sensitive piece of information, the op-ed states, “times have changed, and the information provided by these new online databases aren’t weaponized only by trolls, but also by stalkers, domestic abusers and criminals.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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