Canadian Press reports: The federal privacy commissioner says U.S. firm Clearview AI will stop offering its facial-recognition services in Canada in response to an investigation by the commissioner and three provincial counterparts. The office of privacy watchdog Daniel Therrien says the move includes the indefinite suspension of Clearview AI’s contract with the RCMP, its last…
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How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
This is the stuff thrillers are made of. Joseph Cox reports: Something wasn’t right. Starting earlier this year, police kept arresting associates of Mark, a UK-based alleged drug dealer. Mark took the security of his operation seriously, with the gang using code names to discuss business on custom, encrypted phones made by a company called…
Microsoft’s Free Rein Over EU Staff Data Sparks Privacy Warning
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Microsoft Corp.’s licensing agreements with European Union authorities gave the U.S. tech giant free rein to oversee data processing activities for more than 45,000 EU officials, the institution’s own privacy watchdog warned. The EU’s in-house data protection regulator said in its findings of a probe that institutions’ lack of control “over which…
South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, Goes into Effect July 1
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: Zeyn Bhyat of ENSafrica reports that on June 22, 2020, it was announced that South Africa’s comprehensive privacy law known as the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (the “POPIA”) will become effective on July 1, 2020. POPIA acts as the more detailed framework legislation supporting South Africa’s constitutional right to privacy. POPIA…