Reclaim Your Face wants ban on biometric surveillance ahead of new laws: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AH0N2 Mass facial recognition is the apparatus of police states and must be regulated: https://edri.org/our-work/mass-facial-recognition-police-states/ Estonia- Government uses “secunet (facial recognition) easygates” at airports and border: https://www.secunet.com/en/products-solutions/easygate/ Germany- State Forbids Drivers From Wearing Masks, Sunglasses & Hats While Driving: https://laptrinhx.com/german-state-forbids-drivers-from-wearing-masks-sunglasses-hats-at-same-time-1397485627/ Greece- Government using facial…
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Inside Privacy Audiocast: Episode 10 – Data Privacy Day 2021: Trends to Watch
Not everyone was discouraged on this year’s Data Privacy Day. Dan Cooper and Kurt Wimmer of Covington and Burling did a podcast on developments in 2020 and trends to watch this year. One of the points the always-optimistic Kurt makes is that the pandemic threw a wrench into moving forward on a slew of new…
EPIC Gives International Privacy Award to Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Shyam Divan
From EPIC.org: EPIC presented the 2021 International Privacy Champion Awards to Justice K.S. Puttaswamy, retired Justice of the Kamataka High Court and lead plaintiff in the case that established the constitutional right to privacy in India and challenged the country’s mandatory biometric data collection program Aadhaar, and Senior Advocate Shyam Divan who was the lead…
Data Privacy Day 2021
I remember when the first Data Privacy Day was announced in 2006 to be held in 2007. I was genuinely excited. I even tried to make a graphic, and then spent hours arguing with myself as to whether it was Data Privacy Day or Data Protection Day, and what was the difference? Were we even…