David Prosser writes: Nishant Bhajaria believes the technology sector has a problem. A veteran of technology giants including Google, Netflix and Meta, Bhajaria worries that the industry’s customers increasingly regard it with suspicion and cynicism. “We’ve got to help people to a position where they don’t feel the industry is trying to swindle them,” says…
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…
Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over DOJ, DHS and HUD use of facial recognition technology
Suzanne Smalley reports: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (UCCR) on Thursday released a report which asserts that three federal agencies’ use of facial recognition technology (FRT) is deeply concerning, not sufficiently standardized and not transparent enough. The commission studied how the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Housing…
Tor Project downplays deanon attacks in Germany
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Tor Project says that regular Tor browser users are not affected by a deanonymization attack used by German law enforcement to catch the administrator of a dark web CSAM forum named Boystown. German TV network NDR reported on Wednesday that German police had been secretly recording traffic entering the Tor network via nodes located…