Lizzy Hill writes: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Privacy Framework is a free online tool for organizations that can be used to measure privacy risk while protecting individuals’ privacy. The framework was created in 2020 in collaboration with both private and public sector stakeholders to be agnostic to any technology, sector, law,…
Author: Dissent
Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats
Thomas Claburn reports: Software designed to address legitimate business concerns about cyber security and compliance treats employees as threats, normalizing intrusive surveillance in the workplace, according to a report by Cracked Labs. The report, titled “Employees as Risks” – released today by the Vienna-based non-profit – explores software from Microsoft and formerly from Forcepoint – specifically…
Job Opening: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law at GW Center for Law and Technology
I don’t usually post job listings on this site, but am making an exception for this message from privacy law scholar Dan Solove: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law I’m very excited to report that GW Law is hiring a dean to help run our Privacy & Technology Law Program and our Center…
The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age
Eileen Guo reports: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into ways it might use facial recognition technology to track the identities of migrant children, “down to the infant,” as they age, according to John Boyd, assistant director of the department’s Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), where a key part of his…