Big Brother Watch was recently alerted to the case of an East Midlands school which had deployed automatic facial recognition software as a means by which to sign their pupils in and out of school. Rotterdam City Council, it appears, have gone one step further in announcing the roll-out of facial recognition scanners on their…
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Can you put your identity up for sale?
A man desperate to raise money for an operation his father needs could be exposing himself to prosecution for putting his identity up for sale. Rhianne Pope reports that Preston Likely, a print worker from Littlemore, may find that he’s gone from the financial frying pan into the fire: He said: “I have decided…
ZA: Info Bill heading for delay
Emsie Ferreira reports: The contentious Protection of Information Bill is heading for a redraft to narrow its scope, but the new version will not see the light this year, MPs said on Friday. Parliament’s ad hoc committee processing the bill agreed to take as a starting point for a new draft, proposals by State Security…
German court sets file sharing damages at €15, not €300
A German court has said that a teenager who was guilty of posting copyrighted material to a file sharing network must pay €15 in damages per track and not the €300 the rights holders were demanding. The court said that the basis for a fine should be the amount that reasonable parties would agree as…