Last month, Privacy News Online wrote about the first arrest by UK police using an automatic facial recognition system mounted on a vehicle to scan people in a crowd. But…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvBaV0mXa8I Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of August 21st, 2020 How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK Some of the apps on your…
Chinese police have used automated face recognition cameras to identify and apprehend a fugitive among a stadium crowd of 50,000. This marks a decisive shift in the possibility to be…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfw-hHD5jjs Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of January 8th, 2021 Police are increasingly using digital vehicle forensics to solve cases Police departments around the country have been solving cases…
As new privacy laws attempt to address the different ways that companies collect, store and use biometric data, it’s also important to keep an eye on how the courts are…
Facial recognition has matured sufficiently that it is cropping up in real-world applications with increasing frequency, as recent Privacy News Online stories attest. There's one well-known company that is more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkbXSF_TmTA Back in July last year, this blog wrote about Amazon's Ring series, whose key product is a small Internet-connected camera built into a doorbell. At that time, it was…
Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of January 15th, 2021 Not going dark: personal data from the Internet of Things ushers in a golden age for law enforcement A new…
A couple of weeks ago, a story in the New York Times put facial recognition, and the serious problems it raises, firmly into the mainstream. It concerned the start-up Clearview…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40Oe1wIiNk Featured: Privacy News Online - Week of December 11th, 2020 The US government admits to using the Patriot Act to collect web browsing information The Director of National Intelligence…