Joe Cadillic writes: Two days ago NPR revealed that the Orlando Police Department is using Amazon’s facial recognition to identify people’s faces. Earlier this year, the ACLU sent an FOI request to the police department asking for more information about Amazon Rekognition. The title the police gave to the ACLU’s FOI request is both telling…
Category: Govt
Who’s in charge of the REAL-ID database?
Ed Hasbrouck writes: The state of Alaska has sent us a whopper of a “the records you have requested do not exist” response to one of our attempts to find out about government oversight (or lack thereof) of the private contractor operating the national ID database created to implement the REAL-ID Act of 2005. Here’s…
Belgian Privacy Commission Releases 2017 Annual Activity Report
From Hunton: On May 2, 2018, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2017 (the “Annual Report”), highlighting its main accomplishments for the past year. In 2017, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The Belgian DPA issued a number of documents…
US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data
Zack Whittaker reports: Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you’ve probably never heard about before. In case you missed it, a senator last week sent a letter demanding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigate why Securus, a prison technology company, can track…