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  • Jun 1, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Major fightbacks against “cookie banner terror” and facial image scraping launched across Europe by privacy activists

The EU’s main privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is three years old. Access Now has produced what it calls an “implementation report”, which usefully summarizes the GDPR’s achievements and problems. One of the latter is the lack of enforcement by the Irish Data Protection Commission. Another is the continuing use by Web … Continue reading “Major fightbacks against “cookie banner terror” and facial image scraping launched across Europe by privacy activists”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: March 19, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of March 19th, 2021 Algorithmic bias: how automated decision making has become an assault on privacy An automated decision-making system was employed in The Netherlands to detect people who are likely to commit benefit fraud. The system could cross-reference data about work, fines, penalties, taxes, properties, housing, education, retirement, … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: March 19, 2021”

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  • Mar 13, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Police forces around the world continue to push for routine – and real-time – facial recognition capabilities

Facial recognition crops up on this blog more than most technologies. That’s in part because the underlying AI is advancing rapidly, boosting the ability of low-cost systems to match faces to those in databases. The Clearview saga is a good example of this, where an unheard-of startup has put together what is claimed to be … Continue reading “Police forces around the world continue to push for routine – and real-time – facial recognition capabilities”

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  • Jan 31, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

What can we learn from the Clearview “end of privacy” story?

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 AI, which, as the headline breathlessly informed us, “might end privacy as we know it.” The reason for this worrying description is not any breakthrough … Continue reading “What can we learn from the Clearview “end of privacy” story?”

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