Amazon’s announcement that it will add facial recognition technology (FRT) to its Ring cameras poses privacy risks and may violate laws, said Mario Trujillo, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), during an audio companion to the group’s weekly newsletter Wednesday.
Privacy regulators in the U.S. and abroad are scrutinizing how connected vehicles collect and share data about their drivers, said Morrison Foerster attorneys on a webinar Wednesday.
Ohio school districts aim to enhance student privacy practices through a program at the Consortium for School Networking, CoSN said Monday. The North Central Ohio Educational Service Center joined CoSN’s Trusted Learning Environment State Partnership Program, the consortium said. The two groups will work on tightening student data privacy practices at all Ohio districts. Ohio joins Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina and South Carolina in seeking to enhance privacy throughout their states via the group, CoSN said.
The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), k-ID and other stakeholders launched the OpenAge Initiative to develop an open standard for privacy-preserving age assurance, OpenAge announced Monday.
CHICAGO -- Keeping up with compliance is critical as the field of privacy evolves, in-house lawyers at two companies told the Association of National Advertisers ad law conference this week.
SAN DIEGO -- Data collection has moved beyond websites, paper forms and apps as the automobile has advanced technologically and has begun accumulating data, said Brandon Reilly, leader and lawyer in the privacy and data security group at law firm Manatt Phelps during a panel at IAPP's conference Friday.
CHICAGO – With regulators increasingly focused on child privacy, compliance is critical, said privacy experts at the Association of National Advertisers conference on Monday.
Privacy regulation might have short-term costs, but there’s a dearth of evidence about its long-term economic harms, Carnegie Mellon University professor Alessandro Acquisti said. Speaking on a Thursday webinar hosted by George Washington University privacy professor Daniel Solove, Acquisti also addressed the so-called “privacy paradox” and the challenges of assigning a price to someone’s personal data.
SAN DIEGO -- Companies are good at policing each other to ensure a “trust ecosystem” exists, said Julie Brill, expert in residence at Harvard Law School Innovation Labs and former chief privacy officer at Microsoft (see 2505300023). She was a keynote speaker during the IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday.
23andMe Research Institute formed a privacy advisory board, it said Thursday. Members include Peggy Bodin, HCA Healthcare chief privacy officer; Fred Cate, an Indiana University professor and data strategy consultant; and Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard University professor.