Joseph Cox reports: The Secret Service never actually checked whether people gave proper consent to be tracked by a mobile phone location monitoring tool, despite claiming the data was collected with peoples’ permission, the agency admitted in an email obtained by 404 Media. The email undermines the Secret Service’s and other U.S. federal agencies’ justification…
Category: Surveillance
EPIC urges Dutch Data Protection Authority to Protect Students and Employees from the Harms of Emotion Recognition
From EPIC.org: On December 17th, EPIC filed comments with the Dutch data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, regarding use of and prohibitions on emotion recognition surveillance. The EU AI Act prohibits the development, deployment, and placement on the EU market of emotion recognition systems intended for use in the workplace and in educational institutions, with limited exceptions where the algorithm…
States Granted Leave to Oppose Clearview AI Privacy Settlement
Tonya Riley reports: A federal judge granted 22 states and the District of Columbia leave to file amicus briefs opposing a settlement to resolve claims that facial recognition company Clearview AI violated biometric privacy laws. A group of state attorneys general said the settlement has “severe flaws that undermine consumers’ fundamental right to privacy and…
Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students’ Homes
Victor Tangermann reports: Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves and sending the cops to their homes as a result — with often chaotic and traumatic results. As the New York Times reports, software being installed on high school students’ school-issued devices tracks every word they type. An algorithm then…