The independent research that informs this reporting was funded through a Fulbright scholarship undertaken at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The views and information do not represent the Fulbright Programme, the US government or the New Zealand Government. By Gill Bonnett of RNZ What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum…
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Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner makes recommendations on revisions needed to PIPA
From the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: Recommendations focus on need to update legislation to protect privacy in the midst of vast and fast-moving changes in the handling of information around the world The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) of Alberta has made a series of key recommendations…
Meta Hit With Complaint in Norway for Training AI on User Data
Stephen Treloar reports: Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a Norwegian complaint over its plans to use the images and posts of users on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence models. The process to opt-out breaches strict EU data protection rules and “has been made deliberately cumbersome by using deceptive design patterns and vague wording,”…
Uganda’s Sweeping Surveillance State Is Built on National ID Cards
Olivia Solon reports: Nick Opiyo had just ordered lunch in a Kampala restaurant on the last working day before Christmas when armed, uniformed security forces swarmed his table, handcuffed him, covered his head with a sack he says smelled of blood, and bundled him into an unmarked van. His laptop, phone, documents and car keys…