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.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.