Amelia Vance of the Future of Privacy Forum has an excellent commentary in the Orlando Sentinel that begins: After the horrific school shooting in Parkland last year, state legislators passed a law that included a little-noticed provision creating a new government database. Education Week recently reported that the database will include a vast range of…
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Police To Use Automatic Facial Recognition Sunglasses Without Warrant, Without Reasonable Suspicion, Without… Anything
Joe Cadillic pretty much sums up what our world is becoming these days: A New York based company called Vuzix along with a UAE software company called NNTC, worked together to produce the world’s first automatic facial recognition sunglasses for law enforcement. Not only did they create the world’s first automatic facial recognition sunglasses but they…
Austrian Supreme Court green-lights GDPR case against Facebook
This is huge. Warwick Ashford reports: The Austrian Supreme Court has rejected all attempts by Facebook to block a lawsuit in Vienna on fundamental privacy issues. Facebook had attempted to block the case by Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems by questioning whether it is possible to bring a case about rights under the…
CNIL Fines French Real Estate Service Provider for Data Security and Retention Failures
From Hunton Andrews Kurth: On June 6, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it levied a fine of €400,000 on SERGIC, a French real estate service provider, for failure to (1) implement appropriate security measures and (2) define data retention periods for the personal data of unsuccessful rental candidates. Read more…