Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 17, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted the final version of its Guidelines on facial recognition technologies in the area of law enforcement (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines address lawmakers at the EU and EU Member State level, and law enforcement authorities and their officers implementing and using facial recognition…
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Decision by the Austrian SA against Clearview AI Infringements of Articles 5, 6, 9, 27 GDPR
Summary of the Decision Origin of the case Following a complaint the Austrian SA (DSB) issued a decision against the facial recognition company Clearview AI on the 10th of May 2023. The company reportedly owns a database including over 30 billion facial images from all over the world, which are extracted from public web sources (media…
Exclusive: Google accused of breaking European privacy law by hoarding personal data of potential job candidates for years
David Meyer reported: When Mohamed Maslouh, a London-based contractor, was assigned to enter data into Google’s internal gHire recruitment system last September, he noticed something surprising. The database contained the profiles of thousands of people in the EU and U.K. whose names, phone numbers, personal email addresses and résumés dated back as far as 2011….
Ie: Wexford politicians urged not to post ‘deadly dangerous’ pictures with students
David Looby reports: New Ross district councillor Bridín Murphy has appealed to Co Wexford politicians to not post photos of themselves with pupils, having received a complaint from a parent on the matter. Speaking at the May New Ross Municipal District meeting, Cllr Murphy said: “On the issue of child protection I have noticed in…