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…
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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…
Artificial Intelligence and Associated Clinical Data Privacy Considerations
Seen at BakerHostetler: James Sherer and Emily Fedeles of BakerHostetler have co-authored an article published in the July 1, 2019, issue of The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law (RAIL). The article, “Artificial Intelligence and Associated Clinical Data Privacy Considerations,” discusses how artificial intelligence is regularly involved in clinical data trials and examines a…