Carrefour’s fingerprint payments to be investigated by Belgian privacy agency
The Belgian Data Protection Authority has stated that there is “a good chance” it will investigate Carrefour’s fingerprint payment system. […]
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Google Chrome to drop third-party cookies by 2022
Chrome will replace third-party cookies with browser-based tools and techniques aimed at balancing personalization and privacy. Google announced support for third-party […]
New EU Guidance Published on Cybersecurity and Medical Devices
New European medical device guidance will require manufacturers to carefully review cybersecurity and IT security requirements in relation to their […]
Top Apps Invade User Privacy By Collecting and Sharing Personal Data
A new report published today by the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) looks at the hidden side of the data economy and its […]
CES 2020: The hottest product is privacy
Several of the biggest tech companies attending CES, the closely watched trade show in Las Vegas this week, are putting […]
GDPR will force programmatic advertising to evolve in 2020
GDPR replaced the Data Protection Directive in 2018, and for companies who use programmatic advertising, it could be the key […]
Fight against facial recognition hits wall across the West
The result is an impasse that has left tech companies largely in control of where and how to deploy facial […]
NIST Study Evaluates Algorithmic Bias
A new NIST study examines how accurately face recognition software tools identify people of varied sex, age and racial background. […]
New White Paper Provides Guidance on Embedding Data Protection Principles in Machine Learning
Immuta and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) released a working white paper, Data Protection by Process: How to Operationalise […]
In China’s digital courts, judges are AI and verdicts come via chat app
Artificial-intelligence judges, cybercourts and verdicts delivered on chat apps — welcome to China’s brave new world of justice. China’s digitalisation […]
IAB issues guidelines on AI in marketing
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has issued a guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing. IAB guide […]
Optus opens privacy can of worms with programmable voice play
Bringing an assistant into the phone calls of customers to help with a restaurant booking is an idea fraught with […]