Andrew J. Hawkins reports: Uber announced a new rider verification feature aimed at giving drivers and couriers more peace of mind about their customers. The rideshare company has tried to fight fraud and improve safety on its platform through a variety of methods, including safety check-ins, PIN verification, and audio recordings of rides. But to date, most of…
‘Significant’ Risks As Facial Recognition In Russia’s Subways Goes Regional
Andrei Grigoryev reports: In a move that human rights advocates warn carries potential risks for civil rights, Russia has begun expanding its facial-recognition payment system for subways to six cities outside of Moscow. Kazan, seat of the Volga River region of Tatarstan, and one subway station in Nizhny Novgorod, another major Volga city, started using…
Council of Europe: New guidelines to protect voters’ personal data
September 18 – The Council of Europe has issued guidelines aimed at protecting individuals’ personal data when registering as voters and when their identity needs to be authenticated to participate in elections. The guidelines, prepared by the Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (“Convention 108”), contain advice…
As more criminals hide behind encryption, the FBI teams up with a university it once targeted
Mike Levine reported: Two weeks ago, as college students returned to campus at the University of California, Berkeley, some of the most senior officials in the FBI were huddling inside a nondescript conference room beneath the stands of the school’s football stadium. “Here’s where the rubber meets the road,” one of the FBI officials told…