Tristan Greene reports: China, in a bid to be the biggest big brother of them all, has expanded its already massive facial recognition AI system. Now, along with political dissenters and criminals on the lam, it’ll track the emotional state of high school students in classrooms. What a great idea: Students at the Hangzhou No….
Category: Youth & Schools
FTC Issues Warning Letters for Potential COPPA Violations
From Hunton: On April 27, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission issued two warning letters to foreign marketers of geolocation tracking devices for violations of the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The first letter was directed to a Chinese company, Gator Group, Ltd., that sold the “Kids GPS Gator Watch” (marketed as a child’s…
Halifax police won’t charge teen arrested in Nova Scotia privacy breach
CBC News reports: Halifax Regional Police say they won’t be charging a 19-year-old man arrested last month for downloading files from Nova Scotia’s freedom-of-information portal. Spokesperson Neera Ritcey said in an email Monday that after a thorough investigation, police determined there were no grounds to lay a charge of unauthorized use of a computer against the teen….
Teen files FTC complaint after IMDb refuses to remove phony page claiming he’s a movie producer
Recently, a teenager reminded me how intimidating it can be when you’re trying to change things, but are acutely aware of being “just a teenager.” It’s been a looooong time since I ever felt that way, of course, but as I listened to his story, I felt some of the anxiety he was experiencing. “Kenny”…