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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 21, 2020

Posted on Aug 21, 2020 by Caleb Chen

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…

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Hard to prove harm: Google wins lawsuit over facial recognition

Posted on Jan 6, 2019 by Danica Sergison

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…

Categories: General Privacy News

Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 8, 2021

Posted on Jan 8, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

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Putting the “face” in Facebook: how Mark Zuckerberg is building a world without public anonymity

Posted on Aug 10, 2017 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media

Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system

Posted on Nov 24, 2020 by Glyn Moody

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…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Instagram faces $500 billion lawsuit for gathering facial biometrics data without consent

Posted on Aug 13, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A new class action lawsuit in the state of Illinois is trying to bring Facebook to task for illegally harvesting biometrics data, specifically facial recognition data or a “face template.”…

Categories: General Privacy News, Social Media

Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: January 15, 2021

Posted on Jan 15, 2021 by Caleb Chen

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…

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 11, 2020

Posted on Dec 11, 2020 by Caleb Chen

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…

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France rocked again by demonstrations against the new “Global Security Law”, which includes mass surveillance by police drones

Posted on Dec 1, 2020 by Glyn Moody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mjGCsleds For the second time in a week, demonstrations took place across France against a new "Global Security Law". The proposed legislation would bring in wide-ranging police surveillance in France,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The Hong Kong protests reveal how our faces are becoming a key battleground for privacy and freedom

Posted on Oct 11, 2019 by Glyn Moody

The protests in Hong Kong are much in the news. But for readers of this blog, there's a particular reason why they are of interest. Mainland China is well known…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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