Pros
and Cons, who’s winning?
What
Facial Recognition Technology Can Do for Safety Right Now—And What
It Can’t Do Yet
Everyone’s
looking for ways to stay safer now, and many are looking to
technology for help. Facial recognition is one of the tools that
government agencies and businesses are exploring—both to slow the
spread of the new coronavirus and to protect data from cybercriminals
trying to profit from pandemic-related disruption. However, it’s
not always immediately clear what facial recognition can do reliably
now, what it can’t do and what it can do when people are wearing
masks, sunglasses and other items that obscure the face.
(Related)
What was the strategy?
Angelica
Mari reports
The company responsible for the operation of São Paulo’s subway system has failed to demonstrate sufficient evidence that it is ensuring the protection of user privacy in the implementation of a new surveillance system that will use facial recognition technology.
This is the conclusion of a group of consumer rights bodies following the conclusion of legal action initiated against Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo (METRO) about a project aimed at modernizing the subway’s surveillance system.
Read
more on ZDNet.
Better than
the GDPR?
From
Hunton Andrews Kurth:
Zeyn Bhyat of ENSafrica reports that on June 22, 2020, it was announced that South Africa’s comprehensive privacy law known as the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (the “POPIA”) will become effective on July 1, 2020. POPIA acts as the more detailed framework legislation supporting South Africa’s constitutional right to privacy.
POPIA has been a work-in-progress since it was earmarked for implementation by the South African Law Reform Commission in 2005. The delay in its enactment was attributable, in part, to the publication of the draft EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in 2013, as the POPIA drafting committee paused to consider some of the proposed innovations in the GDPR and also to take steps to ensure that the South African privacy regulator (i.e., the Information Regulator (“SAIR”)) was given an opportunity to develop operational capabilities.
Suggests
we may not have a lot of support for a strong federal privacy law.
Why
Trump’s administration is going after the GDPR
… As
the EU touts
the “success” of
its flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR), Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up attacks on a
system it says provides cover to cybercriminals and threatens public
health.
… Many
of those arguments — namely, that the GDPR has rendered a database
of domain name owners, WHOIS, far less effective in tracking down
suspected cybercriminals — are the same today as they were two
years ago.
Yet
in the past few weeks, as EU privacy watchdogs wrapped
up their first major probes into
U.S. companies and Google
lost an appeal against
a €50 million fine in France, the criticism from Washington has
grown more fervent, and a lobbying campaign has gotten underway in
the U.S. to push back against the effects of the GDPR at home.
Whatever
Mr. Zillman seeks, he finds. Always worth looking for hidden
treasures in these lists.
2020
Directory of Directories
Via
LLRX
–
2020
Directory of Directories –
This
new guide by Marcus
P. Zillman is
a comprehensive
listing
of directory, subject guide and index resources and sites on the
Internet. The guide includes sites in the private, public,
corporate, academic and non-profit sectors and spans the following
subject matters: Academic/Education; Economics/Business; Government
and Statistics; Humanities; Information and Information Science; Law;
Medicine; News; Science and Engineering; and Social Sciences.
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