Samantha Hawkins reports: State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company may have to defend a Chicago grocery store chain in a state biometric privacy case over its requirement that employees use fingerprints to clock-in, an Illinois federal judge ruled. The court denied the insurer’s motion for summary judgment on the defense duty question. In the proposed class…
Category: Breaches
Facial recognition: Italian SA fines Clearview AI €20 million; Bans use of biometric data and monitoring of Italian data subjects
From Italy’s data protection agency, this press release today: The Italian SA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) fined the US-based company Clearview AI EUR 20 million after finding it applied what amounted to biometric monitoring techniques also to individuals in the Italian territory. The company reportedly owns a database including over 10 billion…
More news and an important new book on breaches!!
It’s so hard to keep up with news these days, so in case you missed these developments: Public Health Agency of Canada didn’t act transparently when it proposed to access, then eventually viewed, Canadians’ mobility data, the House of Commons’ Ethics committee heard in February. Read more at iPolitics. Yahoo shutters email service in China….
Dozens of COVID passport apps put user’s privacy at risk
Bill Toulas reports: Roughly two-thirds of test digital vaccination applications commonly used today as safe passes and travel passports exhibit behavior that may put users’ privacy at risk. The risks are substantial as these apps are required for large populations worldwide, allowing hackers an extensive target base. […] Symantec’s team looked into 40 digital vaccine…