EU privacy watchdog urges ban on Pegasus
The European Data Protection Supervisor has called for a ban on the spyware tool Pegasus to protect people’s fundamental rights.
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China tech firm develops controversial IT system that can predict whether an employee is about to resign
A company is developing a system to predict whether an employee is about to resign by spying on browsing job recruitment pages and sending job application emails.
MoviePass 2.0 Wants to Track Your Eyeballs to Make Sure You Watch Ads
MoviePass is relaunching as a web3-style application where users earn credits to go to the movies by watching ads.
Researcher ‘reverses’ redaction, extracts words from pixelated image
A researcher has demonstrated how he was able to successfully recover text that had been redacted using the pixelation technique.
Clearview AI predicts 100 billion photos will give it worldwide facial recognition ability
The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it’s on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year.
Google Plans to Curtail Cross-App Tracking on Android Phones
The Alphabet unit plans to continue support of the existing approach for at least two years as it follows Apple in challenging Facebook.
Groups say Greece migrant biometric data collection will violate human rights
Greece says the system will help identify undocumented migrants but HRW reports Greek police have carried out discriminatory stop and searches of migrants.
EU watchdog to probe public sector’s love affair with cloud
EDPB has kicked off its first coordinated enforcement action, taking a long, hard look at the use of cloud-based services by the public sector.
Civil liberties group calls for review of Data Protection Commission
DPC has come under fire over allegations that it is goes too easy on Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Google.
ID-Fingerprint obligation to be reviewed by European Court of Justice
The local Administrative Court of Wiesbaden will submit the case to the Court of Justice of EU (CJEU).
French watchdog rules use of Google Analytics illegal
Although Google has adopted additional measures to regulate data transfers in the context of the Google Analytics functionality, these are not sufficient.
This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA
Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading.