Jeff Burt reports: Microsoft wants to take the decision of which multi-factor authentication (MFA) method to use out of the users’ hands and into its own. The software maker this week is rolling out what it calls system-preferred authentication for MFA, which will present individuals signing in with the most [Read More…]
The Federal Trade Commission today issued a warning that the increasing use of consumers’ biometric information and related technologies, including those powered by machine learning, raises significant consumer privacy and data security concerns and the potential for bias and discrimination. Biometric information refers to data that depict or describe physical, [Read More…]
The CNIL fined DOCTISSIMO €380,000 because it failed to comply with obligations under the GDPR, in particular obtaining consent of individuals to the collection and use of their health data, and because it didn’t comply with the rules on cookies. Background information Following a complaint by the PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL association, [Read More…]
Summary of the Decision Origin of the case Following a complaint the Austrian SA (DSB) issued a decision against the facial recognition company Clearview AI on the 10th of May 2023. The company reportedly owns a database including over 30 billion facial images from all over the world, which are extracted [Read More…]