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There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere—and Now They Share a Brain
Security cameras. License plate readers. Smartphone trackers. Drones. We’re being watched 24/7. What happens when all those data streams fuse into one?
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- February 5, 2021
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Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Called Illegal in Canada
Canadian authorities declared that the company needed citizens’ consent to use their biometric information, and told the firm to delete facial images from its database.
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Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic
The increasingly prominent — and inescapable — role of digital technologies during the coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by concerning trends in privacy and digital ethics. But more robust pro...
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Facebook/Zuckerberg mad at Apple for allowing increased privacy control
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple’s Privacy Changes are Self-Serving and Anti-Competitive
Facebook today shared its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2020, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s opening remarks were focused on Apple’s...
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Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with more than 2,000 US police and fire departments
Figures from Ring show more than 1,189 police and fire departments joined the program in 2020 for a total of 2,014. That’s up sharply from 703 departments in 2019 and just 40 in 2018.
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You have to be cognitively impaired to install one of these devices in your home.
- February 1, 2021
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Police Say They Can Use Facial Recognition, Despite Bans - More than a dozen cities have passed facial recognition bans in the past couple of years, but police say there are loopholes
Police Say They Can Use Facial Recognition, Despite Bans – The Markup
More than a dozen cities have passed facial recognition bans in the past couple of years, but police say there are loopholes
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New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music
The streaming platform is interested in extracting data points like emotional state, gender, age, and accent to hone its recommendations
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The EU must protect the right to privacy and not attack end-to-end encryption
Along with Threema, Tresorit, and Tutanota, we are releasing a joint statement calling on the EU to reject any ban or attack on end-to-end encryption.
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UK: Tory party illegally collected data on ethnicity of 10m voters, MPs told
Tory party illegally collected data on ethnicity of 10m voters, MPs told
Information commissioner says data was voluntarily deleted amid concerns about ‘weak’ enforcement
