London’s Met Police Buying Retrospective Facial Recognition Technology
The UK’s Metropolitan Police Service has been authorised to buy and use retrospective facial recognition technology.
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In Venice, High-Tech Tracking of Tourists Stirs Alarm
Can cellphone data and surveillance cameras help restore the city’s old-world charm, or just destroy what magic remains?
Privacy-First Marketing Isn’t Always Easy – But It’s 100% Worth The Fight
If your marketing team’s attention is focused on finding a direct replacement for third-party cookies and digital IDs, you are fighting the wrong battle.
How to Find ‘Stalkerware’ on Your Devices
These spyware apps record your conversations, location and everything you type, all while camouflaged as a calculator or calendar.
Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.
Ad trackers continue to collect Europeans’ data without consent under the GDPR
On average, 500,000 ad impressions served per day earlier this year contradicted the data-collection choices people made as required under Europe’s privacy law.
Law Enforcement’s Use of Commercial Phone Data Stirs Surveillance Fight
Agencies’ growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions.
UK’s ICO calls for browser-level controls to fix ‘cookie fatigue’
The UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set “lasting” cookie preferences.
Apple is changing Mail Privacy Protection and email marketers must prepare
Effectively leveraging email analytics and data to inform future emails and multichannel campaigns requires marketers to start preparing now.
UN experts call for moratorium on sale of ‘life threatening’ surveillance tech
UN human rights experts called on all States to impose a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology.
QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow.
Fueled by a desire for touchless transactions, QR codes popped up everywhere in the pandemic. Businesses don’t want to give them up.
The Italian DPA sanctions a food delivery company for monitoring drivers
Italian supervisory authority published an injunction against a company operating a food delivery app over the processing of riders’ personal data with respect to the use of algorithms for the management of the orders.