Sarah Blaskey reports: A Coral Gables resident is suing the “City Beautiful” over a license plate reader system that law enforcement officials say captures data on almost every vehicle that enters or leaves the city. The plaintiff, Raul Mas Canosa, says the collection and retention of vehicle movement data by license plate readers is a…
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Apple Just Killed The ‘GrayKey’ iPhone Passcode Hack
Thomas Brewster reports: Apple has managed to prevent the hottest iPhone hacking company in the world from doing its thing. Uncloaked by Forbes in March, Atlanta-based Grayshift promised governments its GrayKey tech could crack the passcodes of the latest iOS models, right up to the iPhone X. From then on, Apple continued to invest in security…
Amazon met with ICE officials over facial-recognition system that could identify immigrants
Drew Harwell reports: Amazon.com pitched its facial-recognition system in the summer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as a way for the agency to target or identify immigrants, a move that could shove the tech giant further into a growing debate over the industry’s work with the government. The June meeting in Silicon Valley was…
FTC Releases Staff Perspective on Informational Injuries
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On October 19, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it released a paper on the Staff Perspective on the Informational Injury Workshop (the “Paper”), which summarized the outcomes of a workshop it hosted on December 12, 2017 to discuss and better understand “informational injuries” (i.e., harm suffered by consumers as…