Andy Maxwell writes: June 2022 marked the end of a legal battle that despite modest roots, went on to become one of the most interesting copyright cases in recent years. After paying just $47, a shadowy business entity hoped to obtain a DMCA subpoena that would compel Twitter to hand over the personal details of…
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Acadian Ambulance and Duality Health Announce Partnership to Transform Emergency Care Using AI-Powered Facial Recognition
Improving healthcare safety by reducing errors in patient identification usually sounds like a good idea. And more reliable patient identification would reduce or eliminate the majority of cases of medical identity theft where someone knowingly lends or gives their health insurance information to a family member or friend who doesn’t have health insurance. But are…
S.T.O.P. Condemns ESRB’s Gaming Facial Recognition Plans
(New York, NY, 7/26/2023) – Today, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, condemned the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) proposal to use facial recognition to surveil gamers’ ages. The proposal was made in a filing to the Federal Trade Commission, detailing software that would use gamers’ photos to…
US appeals court reinstates Guam in-person abortion counseling law
Nate Raymond reports: A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a law requiring that women in Guam meet with doctors in person before obtaining abortions, a restriction that has made terminating pregnancies in the U.S. territory difficult due to a lack of doctors. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a judge’s 2021 ruling…