Steve Megargee reports: Over the past two weeks, as college athletes have returned to campuses to work out and prepare for sports later this year, a handful of them have tested positive for coronavirus. Arkansas State. Houston. Boise State. Iowa State. Oklahoma State. More than a dozen schools in all. Just how many positive tests…
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30,000 Unsuspecting Rose Bowl Attendees Were Scooped Up in a Facial Recognition Test
Dave Gershgorn reports: New Year’s Day 2020, more than 90,000 college football fans piled into the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, to watch the Oregon Ducks play the Wisconsin Badgers. It turns out some of those fans were being watched, too. Before they even entered the stadium, thousands of attendees were being captured by…
Ca: Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation
I’ve been reading an article by James McCleod on how he discovered that the Tim Hortons app was tracking consumers’ location in violation of their written privacy assurances. Tim Hortons is a popular coffee/fast food chain in Canada. It is owned by Restaurant Brands International (RBI). James had requested his data from RBI under Canada’s…
EU privacy watchdog thinks that Clearview AI is illegal
Thomas Macaulay writes: Clearview AI’s planned expansion into the EU hit a roadblock yesterday when the bloc’s privacy watchdog said it “doubts” that the service is legal. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said that the use of the service by law enforcement would “likely not be consistent with the EU data protection regime.” The body…