Jonathan Greig reports: Greece’s privacy authority has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI €20 million for violating parts of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) released a 22-page decision demanding Clearview AI stop processing biometric data on individuals in Greece and said the company must delete all the data it has…
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Amazon’s Ring gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government in 2021
Zack Whittaker reports: Ring, the maker of internet-connected video doorbells and security cameras, said in its latest transparency report that it turned over a record amount of doorbell footage and other information to U.S. authorities last year. The Amazon-owned company said in two biannual reports covering 2021 that it received 3,147 legal demands, an increase of about…
Amended Clearview AI Biometric Privacy Suit Names Additional Retail Defendants
Christina Tabacco reports: Late last week the plaintiffs, a half-dozen Illinois residents as well as a Californian and a New Yorker, filed an amended complaint against Clearview AI Inc., its leaders, an affiliated company, and retailers who purportedly used its searchable biometric database. The 60-page revised filing says that the facial recognition software company and its founders…
Repeatedly Hacked T-Mobile Ramps Up The Sale Of User App Download And Behavior Data
Karl Bode reports: T-Mobile hasn’t been what you’d call competent when it comes to protecting its customers’ data. The company has been hacked numerous different times over the last few years, with hackers going so far as to ridicule the company’s lousy security practices. A responsible company might slow down on data collection until it was certain it had figured out…