The UK rolled out new child privacy standards for any app, device, or online service that processes personal data.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported about a company called Clearview AI whose powerful facial recognition app “goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.”
Officials in Suzhou, a city in Eastern China, has begun using facial recognition to identify and publicly shame citizens who were pajamas in public.
As Mitch McConnell prepared to draft rules of impeachment, he restricted access of the press to Senators. Justified it by saying it protects Senators’ privacy.
Apple was not encrypting backups because of requests from the FBI asking them not to do so.
(compiled by student fellow Tom McBrien)