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.
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This Site Published Every Face From Parler’s Capitol Riot Videos
Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.
UK bosses set up IT systems to track Covid vaccine status of staff
Moves to assess who has had coronavirus jab could be used by human resources teams to assess employability
Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Movements Without Warrant
The U.S. government is using app-generated marketing data based on the movements of millions of cellphones around the country for some forms of law enforcement.
Monitoring of Employees Faces under Scrutiny in Europe
European privacy regulators are scrutinizing how employers collect workers’ personal data and dishing out multimillion-dollar fines for violations.
An EU parliament website for COVID testing allegedly broke the EU’s privacy laws
The European Parliament is being investigated by the European Data Protection Supervisor after allegations that its COVID testing website didn’t meet EU privacy standards.
A Home Security Tech Hacked Into Cameras To Watch People Undressing And Having Sex
Telesforo Aviles admitted he took note of homes where attractive women lived and hacked into more than 200 accounts over several years.
California WeChat Users Sue Tencent Over Fear of Chinese Censors
A group of California WeChat users sued Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese owner of the messaging and payment app, for allegedly violating their right to privacy by surveilling and censoring their communications.
WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and iMessage: Choosing a Private Encrypted Chat App
Millions of users flocked to the chat apps in recent weeks. There are a few factors behind the surge.
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
Germany′s foreign intelligence service under pressure
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) screens hundreds of millions of emails annually. The European Court of Human Rights is now looking into this practice.
German DPA fines company 10.4 million euros for monitoring employees without legal basis
The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony has imposed a fine of 10.4 million euros on notebooksbilliger.de AG.