Zack Whittaker reports: Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state representatives 96-45 in favor of the bill. Read more on TechCrunch.
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Public school district in New York starts using facial recognition to stop mass shootings
Dalvin Brown reports: Facial recognition has enrolled in school. On Monday, a New York school district became one of the first in the U.S. to roll out facial recognition technology on campus using its students’ faces as an added layer of security. The system of cameras can also be used to identify guns or flagged persons, such…
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Suspends Consultation on Transborder Data Flows
As reported by Bloomberg Law, on May 24, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “OPC”) suspended its public consultation on transborder data flows (the “Consultation”). The suspension follows the announcement of the Digital Charter by the Canadian government, which puts forward principles for digital reform, including improvements to Canadian privacy law….
CU Colorado Springs students secretly photographed for government-backed facial-recognition research
Elizabeth Hernandez follows up on a story that the Colorado Springs Independent broke last week: A professor at the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus led a project that secretly snapped photos of more than 1,700 students, faculty members and others walking in public more than six years ago in an effort to enhance facial-recognition…