MSNBC: The New Jersey drone scare is a privacy wake-up call

And the problem is even more true for our digital lives. The United States is one of the few Western democracies without a separate, dedicated federal data protection agency, and the state privacy laws that do exist often receive a failing grade from civil society groups like the Electronic Privacy Information Center. And this doesn’t even really take into account the new generation of artificial intelligence technologies that businesses, governments, schools and universities are deploying to ingest and make decisions based on our personal data. 

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