Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Woody Hartzog, Daniel J. Solove has an OpEd on ThinkTank that was republished on Lawfareblog last Friday. It begins: Facebook’s recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reignited debate over whether the agency is up to the task of protecting privacy. Many people, including some [Read More…]
Josh Taylor reports: The fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well as facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and personal information of employees, was discovered on a publicly accessible database for a company used by the likes of the UK Metropolitan police, defence contractors and banks. Suprema is [Read More…]
Can we please get through just one week without another privacy breach story involving Facebook? It doesn’t seem we can. Sarah Frier reports: Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work. [Read More…]
Tim Cushing reports: Lee Fang of The Intercept has dug into the cache of internal license plate reader manufacturer documents dumped on the web earlier this year. In addition to hundreds of images of drivers and their vehicles passing through border checkpoints, the files also contained emails from Perceptics (the [Read More…]