Privacy Issues Scorecard True 0% 4 Checks Mostly True 0% 6 Checks Half True 0% 0 Checks Mostly False 0% 13 Checks False 0% 26 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 11 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Privacy Issues TikTok posts stated on February 8, 2025 in a TikTok post: People can get student debt “erased” by filing Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act complaints because the Department of Government Efficiency accessed federal student loan databases. By Claire Cranford • March 27, 2025 Instagram posts stated on August 4, 2024 in an Instagram post: “The NFL will now use facial recognition at every stadium to verify the identity of everyone at the game.” August 16, 2024 X posts stated on February 16, 2024 in a post on X: The Kids Online Safety Act “would require everyone to upload your government ID in order to use most sites on the internet.” February 23, 2024 Instagram posts stated on November 30, 2023 in an Instagram post: With Apple’s NameDrop, anyone placing an iPhone near your child’s “will automatically receive their contact information.” December 1, 2023 Facebook posts stated on May 10, 2023 in a Facebook post: Electric vehicles are a "giant computer that can be controlled remotely from some cloud-based central grid." May 27, 2023 Stephen King stated on July 6, 2022 in a tweet: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with (the) state.” By Grace Abels • July 7, 2022 Bryan Steil stated on September 24, 2021 in Twitter: Says Joe Biden's IRS reform proposals "would require banks and credit unions to hand over private information about routine transactions to the IRS." By D.L. Davis • October 15, 2021 Kevin McCarthy stated on August 31, 2021 in a statement via Twitter: “If these (telecom and internet) companies comply with the Democrat order to turn over private information, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States.” By Jon Greenberg • September 2, 2021 Joe Rogan stated on July 20, 2021 in a podcast episode: The government is “monitoring SMS texts for dangerous misinformation about COVID vaccines.” By Bill McCarthy • July 26, 2021 Mark Robinson stated on July 9, 2021 in a Facebook post: Says “showing up at the front doors of people’s houses and violating HIPAA laws by requesting private medical information regarding their vaccination status is unacceptable and illegal.” By Paul Specht • July 15, 2021 Load More Latest Articles Are tech companies using your private data to train AI models? Here’s what we know • November 20, 2025 US frets about TikTok feeding data to China; banning app won’t end the threat, experts say • March 17, 2023 How strong are HIPAA protections in a post-Roe world? By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: Is the Biden administration pushing for no-knock raids to seize guns? • April 9, 2021
