Rakesh Kumar reports: The government introduced the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023, on Thursday to ‘safeguard’ citizens’ data. This is the third version of the bill, the work on which has been going on since 2017. It was the year when the apex court of the country ruled that privacy is a fundamental right…
Twitter/X Might Have a New DMCA Subpoena Controversy On Its Hands
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…
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…