In Brief: Washington State unemployment records compromised in a breach
Records of 1.6M exposed, including Social Security numbers and banking data.
Records of 1.6M exposed, including Social Security numbers and banking data.
Warning that use of facial recognition technology poses a risk to individual privacy and can negatively affect human dignity and rights, the Council specified that it should only be employed on an appropriate legal basis. They said it should not be used in uncontrolled environments; in ways that may promote racial, sexual or religious discrimination; or to determine personality traits, sentiments, or personal mental health.
Data compiler V12 is also targeting consumers based on recent shopping behaviors. Their new product is Vistas, which assigns people to one of five shopping types based on recent activities. People are also assigned to consumer groups using conventional demographics.
In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.