In Brief: Security vendor Verkada has dropped facial biometrics in 4 US regions – Texas, Illinois, Baltimore, Maryland and Portland, Oregon – in response to expanding legislation
Expectations are more vendors may follow.
Expectations are more vendors may follow.
Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge (Diksha), a key public education tool operated by India’s Ministry of Education and used by millions of Indian students particularly during the pandemic, had its data left unprotected on a Microsoft Azure cloud server for more than a year. Wired, which has verified the story, reported this left the data searchable via a simple Google search.
The company has claimed data was “limited,” since it didn’t include payment card data.
One of the normal stages in the maturation of a new technology is appearance of industry-specific applications. AI agent-powered end-to-end marketing campaigns have reached that stage remarkably quickly. Case in point: Birdeye has released an agentic marketing platform for its base of multi-location brand marketers.