Harold Goodridge and Jessica Clark report: No one has ever accused the internet of being slow to respond. It was no different Tuesday when St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook asking businesses and residents to join its Connect St. Johns program. That’s where people and business owners “register” and “integrate” their security cameras with SJSO…
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Police Facial Recognition Technology Can’t Tell Black People Apart
Thaddeus L. Johnson and Natasha N. Johnson write: … Our research supports fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. We found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people. We believe this results from factors that include the lack of Black faces in the algorithms’ training data…
Facebook to be fined $807million by Ireland’s DPC for mishandling user information
Dan Milmo reports: Facebook is to be fined more than €746m (£648m) and ordered to suspend data transfers to the US as an Irish regulator prepares to punish the social media network for its handling of user information. The fine, first reported by Bloomberg and expected to be confirmed as soon as Monday, will set…
UK court tosses class-action style health data misuse claim against Google DeepMind
Natasha Lomas reports: Google has prevailed against another U.K. class-action style privacy lawsuit after a London court dismissed a lawsuit filed last year against the tech giant and its AI division, DeepMind, which had sought compensation for misuse of NHS patients’ medical records. The decision underscores the hurdles facing class-action style compensation claims for privacy breaches in…