Luca Bertuzzi reports: A draft decision from Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) endorsing Facebook’s legal basis for processing personal data has been met with criticism by a data protection activist who says the platform is trying to bypass EU privacy laws. Since the EU’s GDPR entered into force, Facebook took a unique approach by including…
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European Parliament Votes in Favor of Banning the Use of Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement
Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, Marianna Drake, and Jiayen Ong of Covington and Burling write: On 6 October 2021, the European Parliament (“EP”) voted in favor of a resolution banning the use of facial recognition technology (“FRT”) by law enforcement in public spaces. The resolution forms part of a non-legislative report on the use of artificial intelligence…
South Australia Health holding QR code check-in data indefinitely, report finds, as risk of breach revealed
Isabel Dayman reports: The South Australian Premier’s department has been deleting QR check-in data after 28 days, but SA Health has been holding onto the information it receives for contact tracing indefinitely, according to a report by the state’s auditor-general. The state government requested the auditor-general conduct a review into the management of COVID-Safe QR…
New program tracks quarantining Australians via app, requires selfies for proof
Alec Schemmel reports: Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, has begun piloting a home quarantine tracking program that randomly calls those quarantining at home and requests a selfie from them within five minutes in order to track their location via GPS. Read more on KATV. h/t, Joe Cadillic, who was probably as apoplectic as I was…