Kellen Browning reports: More than a dozen prominent cybersecurity experts on Thursday criticized plans by Apple and the European Union to monitor people’s phones for illicit material, calling the efforts ineffective and dangerous strategies that would embolden government surveillance. In a 46-page study, the researchers wrote that the proposal by Apple, aimed at detecting images…
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UK judge rules that a neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera had ‘breached privacy;’ a doctor was awarded a £100,000 payout.
This could be precedent-setting. Alanis Hayal reports: Dr Mary Fairhurst claimed her neighbour’s cameras left her feeling as though she was under “continuous visual surveillance” as a judge ruled that the footage captured breached Data Protection laws. A doctor is set to receive £100,000 in compensation after a judge ruled that her neighbours’ Ring doorbell…
European Parliament Votes in Favor of Banning the Use of Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement
Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, Marianna Drake, and Jiayen Ong of Covington and Burling write: On 6 October 2021, the European Parliament (“EP”) voted in favor of a resolution banning the use of facial recognition technology (“FRT”) by law enforcement in public spaces. The resolution forms part of a non-legislative report on the use of artificial intelligence…
New resources on privacy harms
Of note: Professors Daniel Solove and Danielle Citron have revised their important article, Privacy Harms, forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download the latest draft for free on SSRN. “Among other things,” Dan writes, “we rethought the typology to add top-level categories and subcategories.” Other papers on harms that the two have co-authored: Standing…