AFP reports: Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said Monday that the messaging platform had removed more “problematic content”, weeks after his arrest in France on charges of failing to act against criminals using the app. Telegram’s search feature “has been abused by people who violated our terms of service to sell illegal goods”,…
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The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology
The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology A report by the U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS, September 2024 Access the 194-page report at https://www.usccr.gov/files/2024-09/civil-rights-implications-of-frt_0.pdf via Joe Cadillic
Texas to Adopt “Tangles” – a Warrantless Profiling and Geofencing Tool
Earlier this month, the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) wrote: The Texas Observer reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for the Tangles surveillance tool, originally designed by former Israeli military officers to catch terrorists in the Middle East. In its acquisition plan, DPS references the…
Upcoming Consumer Privacy Laws: What Organizations Must Know for 2024 and 2025
From the law firm of Epstein Becker & Green: Over the past several years, the number of states with comprehensive consumer data privacy laws has increased exponentially from just a handful—California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, and Utah—to up to twenty by some counts. Many of these state laws will go into effect starting Q4 of 2024…