MoviePass founder wants to use facial recognition to score you free movies
PreShow is developing an app to earn you free movie tickets – to any film in any theater – if […]
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EU Advocate General Issues Opinion on Consent for Cookies and Intersection with the GDPR
On March 21, 2019, Advocate General Szpunar released his opinion in the Planet49 case, currently pending before the Court of […]
EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites
EU governments are allowing more than 100 advertising companies, including Google and Facebook, to surreptitiously track citizens across sensitive public […]
How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
A decade ago, a simple browser setting – called Do Not Track – promised to make it easy to protect […]
Chrome will soon make it harder for websites to spy on you
A new feature coming to Chrome in the near future will allow users to limit the kind of data certain […]
The US Government Will Use Facial Recognition In Top Airports
US Customs and Border Protection is scrambling to implement “biometric entry-exit system,” with the goal of using facial recognition technology […]
We’re not safe without information privacy
Left unchecked, in ten years, some of the biggest, most influential corporations will know (or have ready access to) not […]
Is there a way to use Facebook without giving up my privacy?
Facebook is useful for keeping in touch with friends and family, but you do really have to give it all […]
China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of ‘social credit’ system
China has blocked millions of “discredited” travellers from buying plane or train tickets as part of the country’s controversial “social […]
European Court of Human Rights to Reexamine Bulk Collection
On February 5, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) announced that the Grand Chamber will reexamine two cases concerning […]
Second rise for the ‘Do Not Track’
In recent years, the setting has been criticized as being essentially meaningless. But it might have a crucial role to […]
Using the New Russian Facial Recognition Site
In September 2018, the Russian website FindFace was taken offline in order to provide “solutions tailored for government and business”. […]