The independent and international impartial Biometrics Institute representing users, vendors and researchers in the biometric field has warned Governments that extra care must be taken when Governments use children’s biometrics for border protection and other purposes. The Biometrics Institute which began in Australia but is now the chief independent biometrics body in the world was…
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Security-bill snooping goes too far: Canada’s privacy commissioner
Ian MacLeod reports: Canadians risk being caught in an web of unbridled government snooping into their personal lives if draft security legislation, Bill C-51, becomes law, warns federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien. While lauding the intent of the proposed national security laws, which would give police and state security agencies sweeping additional authorities to counter terrorism,…
Privacy Groups Appeal UK Surveillance Decision
From EPIC.org: Human rights organizations have appealed a judgment concerning GCHQ spying to the European Court of Human Rights. Liberty first challenged the GHCQ in case before the UK Investigative Powers Tribunal. The Tribunal ruled in December that the GCHQ complied Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but in February 2015 the Tribunal held that the oversight rules were not made accessible…
Retail Tracking Firm Settles FTC Charges it Misled Consumers About Opt Out Choices
Nomi Technologies, a company whose technology allows retailers to track consumers’ movements through their stores, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misled consumers with promises that it would provide an in-store mechanism for consumers to opt out of tracking and that consumers would be informed when locations were using Nomi’s tracking…