Akshaya Asokan reports: Sweden’s Data Protection Authority has issued its first fine for violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection regulation after a school launched a facial recognition pilot program to track students’ attendance without proper consent. The country’s privacy authority issued a fine of 200,000 Swedish Krona ($20,700) to the municipality where the…
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Funders Have Given Facebook A Deadline To Share Data With Researchers Or They’re Pulling Out
Craig Silverman reports: Facebook has until Sept. 30 to provide data it promised to academic researchers or a consortium of funders will cease to support the project, BuzzFeed News has learned. The deadline is contained in a soon-to-be-released statement from the Social Science Research Council, a nonprofit that has worked to administer the proposal and…
Primary school to use AI to monitor students
Cao Siqi and Xu Keyue report: A primary school in Shanghai is planning to build an artificial intelligence (AI) technology system to monitor and analyze student behavior including extra attention for details such as smiling or yawning. Chinese experts, however, warned the application could violate student privacy and even contribute to personality disorders. Minhang Qiangwei…
Customers Handed Over Their DNA. The Company Let the FBI Take a Look.
Amy Dockser Marcus has a report that begins: The trouble started when the Federal Bureau of Investigation attorney made a personal appeal to Bennett Greenspan. If you don’t recognize Greenspan’s name, he’s the president of FamilyTreeDNA. Read her report on WSJ.