Russia to Install ‘Orwell’ Facial Recognition Tech in Every School
More than 43,000 Russian schools will be equipped with facial recognition cameras ominously named “Orwell”. The state technology firm Rusnano’s […]
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Facebook sues websites that sold Instagram likes and scraped Facebook user data
Social media network Facebook has filed two lawsuits this week against the operators of two websites that abused its platforms […]
Google says it will no longer save a complete record of every search
Google will no longer save a complete record of every search made by new users, the company says, as it […]
Commission conducting ‘preparatory work’ should ECJ invalidate privacy shield
The European Commission is preparing for the eventuality that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) may invalidate the EU-US data […]
Microsoft develops new differential privacy platform
Microsoft recently launched differential privacy platform, which injects a small amount of statistical “noise” to large data sets to protect […]
Facial recognition developed by Clearview AI likely illegal in Europe
The European Data Protection Board warned that Clearview AI’s technology is likely to be illegal in Europe. Clearview AI’s software […]
Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns
Apple said this week that it declined to implement 16 new web technologies (Web APIs) in Safari because they posed […]
Tiktok to transfer data control to UK arm ahead of Brexit
Tiktok has said it will be moving ownership of its users’ data in Europe to local subsidiaries, in a boost […]
São Paulo subway facial recognition system slammed over user data security and privacy
A new surveillance system is deemed “inefficient and dangerous” as it fails to protect the personal information of 4 million […]
Israel introduces new contact-tracing bill
Throughout the COVID-19 global outbreak, Israel has taken a unique approach for fighting the pandemic. While other countries have developed […]
TikTok Will Never Hand Over Data to Chinese Govt, Says CEO
TikTok has claimed that the Chinese government has never requested for user data, nor would the company turn it over […]
More than half of organisations subject to GDPR collect more data than the regulation permits
A Data Risk and Security report released by the security software company Netwrix has revealed that companies are failing to […]