Elsewhere on this blog today, we noted that Citizen was scrapping it’s police-on-demand program. Now read this report by Joseph Cox and Jason Koebler to fully grasp how dangerous some apps — and some businesses — may be: It was Saturday night two weeks ago, and Frame, the CEO of the crime and neighborhood watch…
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The Privacy Act Project: Revisiting and Revising the Privacy Act of 1974
Pam Dixon and Bob Gellman write: The Privacy Act of 1974 is an orphan. At a time when privacy is a hot legislative topic just about everywhere, almost no one has examined the Privacy Act, one of the oldest information privacy laws in the world. The act reflects the technologies of the 1970s, like ancient…
Clearview AI Hit by Wave of European Privacy Complaints
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Clearview AI Inc. was hit by a wave of complaints across Europe for allegedly breaking the region’s tough privacy laws by scraping billions of facial images from social-media profiles and the internet. In a concerted move on Thursday, campaigners including Privacy International and Noyb filed complaints with data watchdogs in Austria, France,…
Facing a public backlash, an Israeli spyware firm is now scoring its government customers
Jenna McLaughlin reports: When Shmuel Sunray accepted the job in the fall of 2019 as chief legal counsel for NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company accused of selling malware used against journalists and dissidents, he knew it would be a challenge. Founded in 2009 by ex-military and intelligence officers, the company created a hacking tool…