Aaron Sankin interviewed Facebook’s chief privacy honcho, Erin Egan, who was brought in to build Facebook a new privacy program from scratch. Read the interview on The Daily Dot.
Month: July 2016
The RCMP Is Trying to Sneak Facial and Tattoo Recognition Into Canada
Jordan Pearson reports: In November of 2015, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had a problem. At the time, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had been using its massively controversial database of biometric information—photos of people’s faces, tattoos, iris scans, and more—at “full operational capacity” for about a year. The RCMP, on the other hand, was stuck…
Supreme Court Says Scottish ‘Named Persons’ Scheme Could Breach Privacy And Family Life
Sarah Dalzell reports: Earlier today the Supreme Court ruled against a Scottish Government scheme to appoint a ‘named person’ for every child and young person in Scotland. The Supreme Court said that some of the scheme’s proposals would breach the rights to privacy and a family life. Read more on Rights Info.
Pregnancy-tracking app was riddled with vulnerabilities, exposing extremely sensitive personal information
Cory Doctorow reports: Consumer Reports Labs tested Glow, a very popular menstrual cycle/fertility-tracking app, and found that the app’s designers had made a number of fundamental errors in the security and privacy design of the app, which would make it easy for stalkers or griefers to take over the app, change users’ passwords, spy on them,…