Kate Conger, Richard Fausset and Serge F. Kovaleski report: San Francisco, long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use of facial recognition software by the police and other agencies. The action, which came in an 8-to-1 vote by the Board of Supervisors, makes…
Category: Govt
66,300 Marylanders could have their driver’s licenses recalled next month because….. reasons.
Cue “The Twilight Zone” theme. What happens if the federal government changes its mind about what documentation you need to provide to get a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license or identity card, but they change their mind AFTER you’ve already been issued a license or card that was given to you by your state as REAL-ID…
FCC Commissioners Say the Agency Won’t Tell Them About Phone Location Data Investigation
Joseph Cox reports: Two Commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission say that the agency has not been forthcoming about its investigation into the sale of consumers’ real-time cell phone location data by AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile. The commissioners told Motherboard that they don’t have insight into what’s actually being investigated. It appears the investigation…
Can fines rein in Big Tech? Privacy regulators spur a debate
Marcy Gordon of the Associated Press reports: As they negotiate a record fine against Facebook, federal privacy regulators sparked a debate in Congress Wednesday over how effective such penalties can be in preventing future abuses by big companies. Members of a House consumer protection subcommittee also gave a sympathetic hearing to the Federal Trade Commission’s…