Not only do they not even try to obtain your consent, they don’t even tell you you’re under surveillance. Sarah Rieger reports: At least two Calgary malls are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers’ ages and genders without first notifying them or obtaining their explicit consent. A visitor to Chinook Centre in south Calgary…
Month: July 2018
Over 11 million people have installed spyware from ‘Big Star Labs’
Cal Jeffrey reports: In brief: A new batch of spyware has been discovered by AdGuard Research. The malware comes in the form of Android app (and one unsanctioned iOS app) and extensions for Chrome and Firefox. The apps are owned by a company called “Big Star Labs,” but nothing is known about it. Read more…
Judge rebukes Buffalo Schools as he agrees to hear arguments on releasing records
Jay Rey reports: The federal magistrate behind the controversial order to release names and admissions scores of hundreds of students from City Honors and Hutchinson Central Technical School is now raising privacy concerns, as well. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy also rebuked Buffalo Public Schools for not bringing up this issue before his…
India’s Final Draft on Data Privacy Law Issued Yesterday
Hunton Andrews Kurth On July 27, 2018, the Justice BN Srikrishna committee, formed by the Indian government in August 2017 with the goal of introducing a comprehensive data protection law in India, issued a report, A Free and Fair Digital Economy: Protecting Privacy, Empowering Indians (the “Committee Report”), and a draft data protection bill called…