New York is the first state to temporarily ban facial recognition use in schools, potentially setting precedent for other states. The law will allow the NY Office of IT and Education Department to study privacy and security implications of use.
WhatsApp’s founder famously said: “Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA.” Not so much it seems when you look at the metadata being collected and shared by WhatsApp owner, Facebook. Read More Now some experts are calling out reasons to drop Facebook in 2021. Read More
The city-state, which originally assured citizens its COVID TraceTogether program was only for virus tracking, has admitted data was also accessible for police use. Now, rather than reverse course, officials are passing “urgent” legislation to allow this and other types of sensitive data to be used for serious crime investigation.
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.