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Home Depot and Lowe’s Downplay Customer Surveillance Threats

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Home Depot and Lowe’s Downplay Customer Surveillance Threats
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Executives at Home Depot and Lowe’s want to hide how—and whether—they protect customers’ civil rights when they share automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data with local cops and federal agents, who use the information to hunt immigrants and others.



That’s the message from corporate board members responding to a pair of shareholder proposals. The shareholders are asking them to produce reports describing how their company assesses the risks to customers’ data privacy when they share sensiti

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