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 […]
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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 […]
Google’s federated analytics method could analyze end user data without invading privacy
Google’s federated analytics techniques, which power features like Now Playing, could be used to analyze end user data without invading […]
EU privacy regulators investigate Apple’s handling of Siri snippets again
Apple is facing fresh questions from its lead data protection regulator in Europe following a public complaint by a former […]
Latvia to be one of first to use Apple and Google software for coronavirus contact-tracing apps
Latvia will be one of the first countries to use the software tool developed by US tech companies Apple and […]