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The Fight Against Government Face Surveillance: 2019 Year in Review Vendors woo law enforcement with a seemingly inexhaustible flow of new spy tech. This places concerned community members, civil society, and lawmakers in a seemingly Sisyphean struggle of trying to keep up with new technological threats to privacy, and to shepard the adoption of enforceable policy to protect essential civil liberties. If 2018 was the year of communities standing together in the fight for democratic control over whether or not police may acquire surveillance technology, 2019 was the year that many of these same communities led the charge to ban government face surveillance.  TAKE ACTION END FACE SURVEILLANCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Local Bans  In May of this year, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban local government use of face surveillance technology. San Francisco’s ban was enacted with overwhelming support from the City’s Board of Supervisors as part of the ci...

Consumer Data Privacy in California: 2019 Year in Review The California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ) was enacted in 2018 and goes into effect in 2020. Throughout 2019, EFF and our privacy coalition allies beat back numerous attempts by big business to block this important law before it goes into effect. We did so in the California Legislature , in Congress, and in the administrative rule-making process. We will keep doing so in 2020. In fact, we will work to make CCPA even stronger. What is CCPA? CCPA gives consumers three legal rights against businesses. First, consumers have a right to know , that is, to learn what personal information a business has collected about them. This includes access to specific pieces of data. It often includes “portability,” meaning the ability to obtain the data in a usable format. It also includes disclosure of the categories of data sources, the categories of data destinations, and the purpose of collection. Second, consumers have a right to del...

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Building Mersin City Hospital into a state-of-the-art facility Schneider Electric certified EcoXpert partner, Mas Otomasyon—a system integrator with expertise in BMS, KNX, security, and energy automation solutions—is helping forge new territory in healthcare with their work for Mersin City Hospital in Turkey.  Located in the Korukent district of Toroslar (a provincial district in Mersin), this healthcare facility is not only one of the largest in Turkey, it’s also the first such facility built using the country’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) finance model. In addition, it is an award-winning example of outstanding excellence as a Digital Hospital. Upon completion of the project, HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) graded Mersin City Hospital as EMRAM Stage 6, reflecting the hospital’s significant commitment to and investment in healthcare IT, enabling almost completely automated and paperless medical records. The project also earned recognition as...

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