Salma Khalik reports: The Court of Three Judges has thrown out the second case that the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) had asked it to review this year, after the deadline for appeal had passed. It found National University Hospital (NUH) psychiatrist Soo Shuenn Chiang had done no wrong in releasing confidential information [Read More…]
Sindu Hariharan reports: India may have made a start in recognising privacy and data security, but it is next only to Russia and China when it comes to its surveillance framework and is dubbed as a country with “systemic failure to maintain privacy safeguards”. India scored 2.4 out of 5 [Read More…]
Jack Herrera reports: Border Patrol’s electronic eyes will spot you long before you spot them. If you walk along the United States border in remote stretches of New Mexico desert, or in the grasslands between North Dakota and Canada, you might not hear the buzz of what could be flying [Read More…]
Cassandra Deskus and Joshua R. Fattal report: From prisons to banks, the mass recording and collection of voices has become increasingly common. This practice can be useful—voiceprint technology (also known as voice recognition technology) helps banks and prisons verify the identity of a caller and prevent fraud. But, used for [Read More…]