In a surprise win for privacy advocates, the European Court of Justice has ruled companies will face restrictions on storing information about European Union (EU) residents on U.S. servers, The Wall Street Journal reported. The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of...
The government of India has the legal right to monitor and decrypt digital information on citizens’ devices, TechCrunch reported Tuesday (Nov. 19). In a written statement to the parliament, Minister of State for Home Affairs (MHA) G. Kishan Reddy cited section 69 of the Information...
Big Brother will keep an eye on Chinese businesses as the government’s social credit system compiles data on the country’s 1.4 billion people, The New York Times reported on Sunday (Sept. 22). As China increasingly becomes a market economy, the government is becoming more concerned...
China is racing to become the first country to implement a pervasive system of algorithmic surveillance, igniting fears that the government will control its citizens’ lives. The country will step up the building of its planned social credit system by rolling out new market regulatory...
June 20, 2017
FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is the best in the world (yep, even better than Google’s) and is being used for public safety, law enforcement and fraud prevention through cybersecurity. Of course, facial recognition has driven […]
October 06, 2023
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has reportedly expressed concerns about the potential risks posed by payment systems that enable excessive surveillance and financial censorship. In a Friday (Oct. 6) speech at the Brookings Institution, Chopra emphasized the need for stronger protections against the misuse of personal data and highlighted the importance of maintaining […]
July 16, 2020
In a surprise win for privacy advocates, the European Court of Justice has ruled companies will face restrictions on storing information about European Union (EU) residents on U.S. servers, The...
November 19, 2019
The government of India has the legal right to monitor and decrypt digital information on citizens’ devices, TechCrunch reported Tuesday (Nov. 19). In a written statement to the parliament, Minister...
September 23, 2019
Big Brother will keep an eye on Chinese businesses as the government’s social credit system compiles data on the country’s 1.4 billion people, The New York Times reported on Sunday...
