Asha Barbaschow reports: Remember that facial recognition startup found being used by law enforcement agencies around the world last year? Well today, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner has ruled they breached the country’s privacy laws. It was ruled Clearview AI breached Australians’ privacy by scraping their biometric information from the web and disclosing it through a facial…
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UK Schools Normalizing Biometric Collection By Using Facial Recognition For Meal Payments
Tim Cushing writes: Subjecting students to surveillance tech is nothing new. Most schools have had cameras installed for years. Moving students from desks to laptops allows schools to monitor internet use, even when students aren’t on campus. Bringing police officers into schools to participate in disciplinary problems allows law enforcement agencies to utilize the same tech and analytics they deploy…
Run a credit check without consent in Norway and it may cost you
Suppose a company ran a credit check on you despite the fact that you had no relationship to that company and had not requested nor consented to any credit check. What do you think the government would do to the company, if anything? Well, if you are in Norwary, the Norwegian DPA might fine that…
Recent Disneyland visitors test negative for COVID-19
Wang Qingchu reports: As of 8am today, 66,460 people who visited Shanghai Disneyland on October 30 and 31 have tested negative for the coronavirus, the local government said today. Another 1,016 environmental samples were also negative for COVID-19. These visitors are subject to two more tests each as an individual who later tested positive for…