Jeremy Meisinger of Foley Hoag writes: On October 1, 2019, China’s new regulation to protect personal data related to children – called the “Measures on Online Protection of Children’s Personal Data” – went into effect. As we wrote in June, when a draft of the regulation was released by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the regulation contains…
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A hospital’s ‘Wall of Shame’ used private records to mock disabled patients. Now officials are apologizing.
Antonia Noori Farzan reports: MyKayla McCann was shocked by what she discovered at her first day of work. Using confidential medical records, her new co-workers at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, Maine, had created an ersatz collage that was hidden on the inside of a cabinet door and labeled it the “Wall of…
France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
Helene Fouquet reports: France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity — whether they want it or not. Saying it wants to make the state more efficient, President Emmanuel Macron’s government is pushing through plans to roll out an ID program, dubbed Alicem,…
Victory! EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study How Law Enforcement Uses the Privacy Invasive Technology
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies under which the police and sheriff’s departments will turn over license plate data they indiscriminately collected on millions of law-abiding drivers in Southern California. The data, which has…