PwC facial recognition tool criticised for home working privacy invasion
Accounting giant PwC has come under fire for the development of a facial recognition tool that logs when employees are […]
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Attorney General pens letters to Apple, Google urging them to protect consumer privacy on COVID-19 tracing apps
Attorney General Letitia James is calling on two major tech companies to protect consumer information and privacy as New Yorkers […]
Norway pulls its coronavirus contacts-tracing app after privacy watchdog’s warning
One of the first national coronavirus contacts-tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the […]
Amazon Bans Police Use of Its Face Recognition for a Year
Amazon on Wednesday banned police use of its face-recognition technology for a year, making it the latest tech giant to […]
IBM ends all facial recognition business
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced that the company would no longer sell facial recognition services, calling for a “national dialogue” […]
Critical Vulnerability Could Have Allowed Hackers to Disrupt Traffic Lights
A critical vulnerability affecting traffic light controllers made by SWARCO could have been exploited by hackers to disrupt a city’s […]
GDPR complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over coronavirus Test and Trace programme
Open Rights Group has instructed lawyers to lodge a complaint with the UK’s data watchdog over the rollout of the […]
CISA Releases New Cyber Essentials Toolkit
As a follow-up to the November 2019 release of Cyber Essentials, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the […]
New Facial Recognition Tech Only Needs Your Eyes and Eyebrows
Facial recognition company Rank One has released a new form of facial recognition called periocular recognition, which can supposedly identify […]
Glasses Equipped With Facial Recognition Are Coming
New York-based Vuzix is selling augmented reality headsets to identify suspects. In February, Gizmodo reported that Vuzix was working with Clearview AI […]
UK’s COVID-19 tracing app launched before DPIA completion
It has emerged that the UK’s Coronavirus Test and Trace programme failed to complete a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) […]
AI firm that worked with Vote Leave given new coronavirus contract
An artificial intelligence firm hired to work on the Vote Leave campaign may analyse social media data, utility bills and […]