From Joe Cadillic’s latest weekly roundup: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria to Build the New Shared Facial Recognition System for Border Protection of the Schengen Area: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200603005529/en/ EU to pay 300 million EUR for IDEMIA and Sopra Steria face and fingerprint recognition: https://digit.site36.net/2020/06/05/project-interoperability-eu-to-pay-300-million-eur-for-face-and-fingerprint-recognition/ A Single Company (IDEMIA) Will Now Operate Facial Recognition for Nearly 800 Million…
Category: Misc
Access Now and partners defend Maine broadband privacy law
June 1, 2020 – Today, Access Now and New America’s Open Technology Institute, represented by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation, filed an amicus brief in the internet service providers’ (ISPs) challenge to the Maine broadband privacy statute. The brief is in support of the state of Maine and of upholding the statute. The amicus brief argues that…
Other privacy news you may have missed this past week…
With so much understandable coverage of protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a now-former police officer, many of us didn’t keep up with a lot of other news last week. Here are some of the headlines that Joe Cadillic compiled for the week: 5 big EU countries blast Big Tech…
PH: Enabling Trust in the New Normal: Reimagining Privacy in the Time of Pandemic
Starting TODAY: PAW 2020 goes virtual! Join us online on 29 May 2020. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) spearheads a virtual celebration of the Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) 2020, in keeping with the need for social distancing as the country continues to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. Themed “Enabling Trust in the New Normal: Reimagining…