The District of Columbia attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, aiming to hold the Facebook co-founder personally liable for allowing the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica to gather the personal data of millions of Americans during the 2016 election season. Image by Alexander Shatov The lawsuit, filed in the capital by Attorney General Karl Racine […]
Continue readingIn an attempt to get a share of the $18 billion (£14.4 billion) biometrics industry, Mastercard is launching a controversial initiative that will allow consumers to pay at the register with only a smile or a wave of the hand. While face recognition technology has long been a source of concern for civil rights advocates, […]
Continue readingClearview AI Inc was fined £7,552,800 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for collecting photographs of individuals from the web and social media to construct a worldwide online database that could be used for face recognition. The ICO also issued an enforcement notice, directing the firm to stop accessing and exploiting personal data on UK […]
Continue readingGoogle is being sued in the United Kingdom for its usage of 1.6 million people’s sensitive medical information. Google sued in the High Court for exploiting 1.6 million Britons’ NHS data ‘without their knowledge or consent.’ The data was obtained in 2015 from the Royal Free NHS Trust in London with the aim of testing […]
Continue readingThe French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has penalized Dedalus Biologie 1.5 million euros for violating health data. The massive data breach affected nearly 500,000 people, including their personal information and, above all, their medical information (HIV, cancers, genetic diseases, pregnancies, drug therapy of patients, or genetic data) of these people. The Case’s Background Dedalus Biologie […]
Continue readingWhat is the Android Privacy Sandbox? In short: The Privacy Sandbox on Android will bring new technologies that do not rely on cross-app identifiers, such as Advertising ID. The Privacy Sandbox attempts to prevent covert monitoring and data gathering, as well as safer ways for apps to interface with third-party developers. The four essential components […]
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