The city of Orlando, Florida had reportedly stopped testing Amazon’s facial recognition program after receiving complaints from rights groups who argued that the service could be used in ways that violate civil liberties. The Florida city decided not to continue the pilot program after its contract...
A number of major American news sites like the Los Angeles Times and New York Daily are still blocking readers from the EU after the implementation of the GDPR. It is said that a number of websites owned by Tronc and Lee Enterprises are affected,...
Dr. Zhang Weining, an associate professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, recently remarked that the Chinese people do not care much about privacy since it is an alien concept to them. He argued that culture in the country makes it common, particularly for...
Reuters said this week that financial watchdogs from North America, Britain and Asia are pressuring the European Data Protection Board to sign an agreement which will exempt them from the GDPR which are causing delays with cross-border investigations. EU’s new data privacy law, which came...
China is reportedly developing drones which look like birds in an effort to increase the government’s public surveillance powers. The South China Morning Post reported that the government’s program, codenamed “Dove”, will be using small drones that are designed to fly like birds. The drones, which...
The Information Technology Industry Council organized an event this week in San Francisco which will be attended by privacy and government affairs officers from global tech companies to discuss consumer privacy concerns. The all-day meeting will be hosted by the Washington trade group that represents major...
Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that his company cared about privacy even before everyone cared about it and said that they recognized even before that building detailed profiles on people could potentially lead to harm. Cook also warned that people in today's environment...
Deputy Assistant Director Robert Novy of the US Secret Service reportedly urged Congress to consider tighter regulations against “anonymity-enhanced” cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash. Novy emphasized that Congress needs to ensure that law enforcement agencies have legal access to critical sources of evidence, regardless...
A developer this week revealed to TechCrunch that Facebook inadvertently emailed their App Analytics weekly summary to someone outside of their organization. The summary, which includes sensitive business information such as weekly average users, page views and new users, were apparently sent to app testers...
Several Indian IT firms such as Tata Consultancy, Wipro, and Mindtree recently called EU’s new privacy rules a “compliance risk” that may bring severe consequences for breach or non-compliance. In their 2018 fiscal report, the companies agreed to call the GDPR a risk as it could...