Michelle Chapman of AP reports: Amazon is rolling out an independent cloud for Europe as it looks to address strict regulations that companies and those in the public sector face in the European Union. Amazon Web Services said Wednesday that its AWS European Sovereign Cloud, which will be located in and operate out of Europe,…
NY Wins Power to Search DNA Bank for Criminals’ Relatives
Beth Wang reports: New York can expand the use of a DNA database to blood relatives of people who have previously been convicted of a crime after the state’s top justices narrowly overturned a lower court’s ban on the practice. Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote the opinion for the four-judge majority, saying the state did have the…
Utah Publishes Proposed Rules for Age Verification and Parental Consent in Social Media Law
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On October 15, 2023, a proposal was published on Utah’s social media regulation law, S.B. 152, which was signed earlier this year. As part of Utah’s effort to regulate social media companies, state officials released proposed rules for S.B. 152’s requirement that social media companies verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors who intend…
Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children’s Faces
Kashmir Hill reports: Concerns about children’s privacy have led PimEyes, the public face search engine, to ban searches of minors. The PimEyes chief executive, Giorgi Gobronidze, who is based in Tbilisi, Georgia, said that technical measures had been put in place to block such searches as part of a “no harm policy.” PimEyes, a subscription-based…