Europe risks another tech tangle with ‘vaccine passports’ https://www.politico.eu/article/vaccine-passports-echo-coronavirus-app-failures/ MEPs call for European AI rules to ban facial recognition surveillance in public: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/meps-call-for-european-ai-rules-to-ban-biometric-surveillance-in-public/ The Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-loophole-state-backed-manipulation Privacy Warning: Facebook AI Has Monitored 45,000 Videos Of People Chatting https://ai.facebook.com/blog/shedding-light-on-fairness-in-ai-with-a-new-data-set Germany- Data Protection Authority addresses right to privacy during…
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Israeli Spyware Company Begs Ninth Circuit for Immunity From WhatsApp Suit
Maria Dinzeo reports: Three Ninth Circuit judges signaled Monday that they are unlikely to upend centuries of legal precedent by granting sovereign immunity to an Israeli software firm whose cybersurveillance tool was used by foreign governments to spy on some 1,400 journalists and activists. NSO Group Technologies is probably best known for Pegasus, a piece…
In Memoriam, Kurt Wimmer
One of the most important contributors to this blog will be laid to rest this morning, and I am absolutely gutted. For more than one decade, Kurt Wimmer was this blog and this blogger’s First Amendment defender and counsel. It was only with Kurt’s pro bono help and that of Jason Criss, and their colleagues…
How do you talk about consent with your kids?
How you talk about “consent” with your kids will depend on a number of factors, including what the laws of your country are. Or should your talk focus on non-legal aspects of “consent?” Caitlin Fitzsimmons has an Explainer on The Age that regardless of what country or laws apply in your area, you may wish…