Jay Peters reports: IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Krishna addressed the letter to Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Reps. Karen…
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This Won’t Hurt a Bit: Employee Temperature and Health Screenings – A List of Statewide Orders, as of June 8, 2020
From the law firm of Littler Mendelson: Governors and public health officials across the country have implemented stringent measures to help contain the spread of COVID-19, such as safer at home and face covering mandates. Some jurisdictions also require employers to screen the health of employees, often as they begin a shift. These health screening…
“Notice and Consent” is a failed approach. Time to move on.
It was another thought-provoking Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference this year, although it was held in the virtual environment. Law professors Daniel Solove and Chris Hoofnagle did an amazing job taking this annual event and trying to translate some of its best features into the virtual space. I did not manage to see everyone I usually…
Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet use
Jonathan Stempel reports: Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode. Read more on Reuters. The case is Brown et al v Google LLC et al, U.S….