Zack Whittaker reports: Microsoft’s customer security chief says as many as one-third of all government demands that the company receives for customer data are issued with secrecy clauses that prevents it from disclosing the search to the subject of the warrant. The figure was disclosed in testimony by Microsoft’s Tom Burt ahead of a House…
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GAO Finds Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Without Adequate Privacy Protections
From EPIC.org: In a report, the Government Accountability Office found that 13 federal law enforcement agencies are unable to track employees use of facial recognition services and reported that 20 agencies use some form of facial recognition. Eight agencies own systems while 17 agencies used a system outside the agency in the last two years. The…
Wisconsin Supreme Court Refuses to Limit Warrantless Forensic Searches of Cell Phones
From EPIC.org: The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an opinion in Wisconsin v. Burch finding that cell phone data downloaded with a forensic device can be used in a subsequent, unrelated investigation and trial regardless of whether the data was initially obtained without a warrant in violation of the Fourth Amendment. A police department used a forensic device to download the entire…
Shutterfly Illinois Biometric Privacy $6.75M Class Action Settlement
Top Class Actions reports: Shutterfly has agreed to $6.75 million settlement benefiting certain Illinois consumers who say they appear in photos on the site in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The Class includes Illinois residents who appear in a photograph maintained on Shutterfly at any time between June 11, 2014, and the date…