Thomas Claburn reports: Software designed to address legitimate business concerns about cyber security and compliance treats employees as threats, normalizing intrusive surveillance in the workplace, according to a report by Cracked Labs. The report, titled “Employees as Risks” – released today by the Vienna-based non-profit – explores software from Microsoft and formerly from Forcepoint – specifically…
Job Opening: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law at GW Center for Law and Technology
I don’t usually post job listings on this site, but am making an exception for this message from privacy law scholar Dan Solove: Hiring a Dean for Privacy & Technology Law I’m very excited to report that GW Law is hiring a dean to help run our Privacy & Technology Law Program and our Center…
The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age
Eileen Guo reports: The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking into ways it might use facial recognition technology to track the identities of migrant children, “down to the infant,” as they age, according to John Boyd, assistant director of the department’s Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), where a key part of his…
Privacy Protections of the Stored Communications Act Gutted by California Court
Stephanie Pell and Richard Salgado of the Lawfare Institute write: On July 23, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District issued a whopper of a decision that looks to upset decades’ long understandings of how users’ data is protected from disclosure by providers under the Stored Communications Act (SCA). It eviscerates the SCA’s prohibitions that prevent communication…