So okay, this is definitely NOT okay from this blogger’s perspective. Breitbart reports: A senior MEP within the European Parliament has accused the EU of trying to bring in “mass surveillance” with a new law controlling private online chats. Dr Nicolaus Fest MEP, the leader of the populist Alternative für Deutschland party within the European Parliament,…
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Does the European Parliament use Facial Recognition Technology?
Earlier this week, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) wrote: ICCL has obtained 32 documents from the European Parliament about its use of CCTV cameras. We have learned that the European Parliament, which opposes facial recognition technology (FRT), had itself tendered for facial recognition capable cameras in 2015. The European Parliament’s tender also required…
UK: Students ‘outed without even knowing’ after SU self-id data ‘breach’
Caredig ap Tomos reports: Sensitive data relating to students’ self-identification continued to be shared with students running elections on Cambridge Students’ Union’s voting platform months after the issue was originally raised. Sources have told Varsity that countless students were “effectively outed without even knowing it” because of the ‘breach’ of sensitive data, which took nine months to…
PK: Journalist granted bail in data leak case
Daily Times reports: An Islamabad sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to journalist Shahid Aslam who was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) last week from Lahore for allegedly being part of leaking tax data of former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa. The journalist was produced by the FIA before…