Liam Tung reports: A municipality in the north of Sweden has been fined over its use of facial recognition technology to monitor student attendance. But the fine illustrates a part of Europe’s new privacy laws regarding the power of an organization gaining consent from the user. The municipality of Skellefteå, a town located about 700km…
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YouTube Said to Be Fined Up to $200 Million for Children’s Privacy Violations
Natasha Singer, Jack Nicas and Kate Conger report: The Federal Trade Commission has voted to fine Google $150 million to $200 million to settle accusations that its YouTube subsidiary illegally collected personal information about children, according to three people briefed on the matter. Interested in All Things Tech? The Bits newsletter will keep you updated…
Facial Recognition Use Triggers GDPR Fine
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…
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…