Joe Cadillic had sent me this news items a few weeks ago, but I’m finally getting a bit more caught up with his great newshounding (is that a word?). Neil Connor reports that a suspect was picked up by police in China at a concert by Jacky Cheung, a well-known Hong Kong singer. Out of 60,000…
Month: April 2018
You sent spit for private DNA analysis. How long before the police get it?
Stuart Leavenworth reports: Law enforcement scored a breakthrough this week by using a DNA match to identify a suspect in California’s East Area Rapist case. But that tactic has put genetic testing companies on the defensive and raised questions about their ability to protect consumer privacy as investigators increasingly seek out DNA databases to solve…
EPIC, Coalition Urge Ethics Board to Prevent the Use of Facial Recognition on Body Cameras
From EPIC: In a letter to Axon’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics Board, EPIC and a coalition of civil rights and civil liberties groups called upon the Board to prevent Axon, the largest provider of police body cameras, from implementing real-time facial recognition. The letter states that “real-time facial recognition would chill the constitutional freedoms of speech…
FTC Warns Gator Group, Tinitell that Online Services Might Violate COPPA
The staff of the Federal Trade Commission sent letters to two foreign companies that market electronic devices and apps that appear to collect geolocation data from children, warning that the companies may be in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. The letters were sent to China-based Gator Group Co., Ltd., and…