On 14 January 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court delivered a highly anticipated judgment on the legality of the integration of the digital format of two fingerprints in ID cards, introduced through Article 27 of the Belgian law of 25 November 2018. After a balancing of interests, the Court ruled that the inclusion of digital fingerprints…
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Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images, Internet sleuthing explodes, raising concerns
Todd Shields, Kartikay Mehrotra, Naomi Nix, and Jennifer A Dlouhy report: The FBI arrested one man after a co-worker at a western Maryland restaurant reported seeing him in images of people assaulting the U.S. Capitol. A Texas man was charged after his ex-wife recognized him in a social-media video and called authorities, noting that it…
Ca: Indigenous leaders call on B.C. government to notify parents subjected to ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ birth alerts
Brielle Morgan reports: Families who were subjected to birth alerts deserve to know their personal information was shared between social workers and health care workers without their consent, says Cheryl Casimer. “First and foremost, those families need to be notified. And I think that there needs to be an apology that needs to be made…
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
Zack Whittaker reports: A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app. Ring, the video doorbell and home security startup acquired by Amazon for $1 billion, launched Neighbors in 2018 as a breakaway feature in its own standalone app. Neighbors is one…