Canadian Privacy Commissioner says facial recognition risks not addressed in proposed law
Canada needs new regulation for facial recognition beyond the proposed update to private-sector privacy laws, according to Privacy Commissioner Daniel…
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Amnesty International logging every CCTV camera in NYC
An Amnesty International project known as Decoders is organizing a virtual inventory of CCTV and other public cameras in New…
The East plays a COVID shell game with biometric surveillance
Again, governments around the world are trivializing personal privacy as they build increasingly intrusive biometric surveillance networks. Officials in Hong…
The possibilities of biometric surveillance grow with unsettling questions, critics allege
Three recent articles, two journalistic and one research, have looked at questionable biometric surveillance tools and found reason to worry…
5 commonsense steps for mayors wanting biometric surveillance
Trust being difficult to establish, the National League of Cities has published a report it hopes will show municipal leaders…
Consumer data privacy rights advance in China, stall in India
The dominant mainland Asia economic powers, China and India, are tackling consumer privacy with proposed overarching legislation, but at the…
Nuance and focus the watchwords on facial recognition for more privacy officials
Policy debates over facial recognition are still wide-eyed and emotional, but a recent conference keynote shows that some government officials…
Facial recognition concerns impact Malta, South Africa and NYC public safety projects
Maltese MEPs of the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) met on Thursday to discuss the recent European Commission proposal for new…
European data protection regulator argues biometric surveillance restrictions not strong enough
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiórowski says the European Commission’s proposed legislation restricting the use of facial recognition and…
Real-time facial recognition system deployment blocked by Italian data protection authority
The Italian data protection authority (Garante) has published a new document in which it declared the Sari Real Time facial…
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