Bill Fitzgerald had a concerning thread on Twitter yesterday about some research on College Board and the sharing of student data. I will not reproduce his whole thread here, but he points us to the team’s report on Consumer Reports, authored by Thomas Germain. The bullet points alone are enough to make you realize that…
Month: July 2020
NIST Study Finds Masks Undermine Face Recognition Accuracy
More reasons to wear a mask — it negatively impacts facial recognition accuracy. From EPIC.org: A study conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology showed that face masks undermine the accuracy of facial recognition algorithms. The NIST study tested digitally applied masks of various shapes on 89 commercial algorithms. The result were error rates between 5% and…
Transferring Employee Data after EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Invalidated
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Mary T. Costigan of JacksonLewis write: Businesses are now prohibited from transferring employee personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the U.S. under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield invalid in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook…
NZ: Covid-19 patients’ privacy breach ‘not justified or reasonable’, inquiry finds
Anna White reports: There was no justification for MP Hamish Walker and political operative Michelle Boag to leak confidential Covid-19 patient details, the inquiry into the privacy breach found today. The report also warned of concern at the “routine dissemination” of personal details by the Ministry of Health. Names, addresses, ages and hotel names of people…