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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Think about privacy the next time you ask Alexa the weather
More and more people are starting to think twice before asking Alexa for the daily forecast. According to a recent […]
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 […]
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 […]
Google adds DuckDuckGo as Default Search Engine Option
Google recently released version 73 of its Chrome browser that now includes pro-privacy search engine options like the popular DuckDuckGo. […]
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 […]
Facial recognition: Apple, Amazon, Google and the race for your face
Facial recognition is a blossoming field of technology that is at once exciting and problematic. If you’ve ever unlocked your […]
Privacy essential to innovation and prosperity
Privacy, innovation and prosperity go hand-in-hand. However, the underlying foundation of them all is freedom. But let us begin by exploring […]
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 […]
IBM used Flickr photos for facial-recognition project
IBM has been accused of using Flickr photos for a facial-recognition project, without the full consent of people in the […]
Legislation to improve cybersecurity of IoT devices introduced in Senate, House
Bipartisan legislation to improve the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices will be introduced today in the Senate and the House of […]
The Netherlands DPA states cookie wall not allowed
On 7 March 2019, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) created quite some buzz in the online Dutch (advertising) industry: […]