One Year On, GDPR Needs a Reality Check
(Financial Times, Jul 16, 2019)
A year after the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect, evidence is mounting that the law has shortcomings and unintended consequences that are hurting businesses, consumers, and innovation. Ignoring GDPR’s problems will hold Europe back as it struggles to compete in the digital economy. As EU policymakers start their new term, they should make the necessary reforms to ensure the law’s second anniversary is more successful than its first.
Five Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From European Privacy Efforts
(Government Technology, Jul 16, 2019)
The EU’s GDPR has created momentum for U.S. lawmakers to introduce their own proposals to regulate data privacy. Given that the GDPR has fallen short of expectations, policymakers in other countries have an opportunity to do better. The U.S. should avoid repeating the EU’s mistakes and instead strive to create a national privacy framework that streamlines regulation, preempts state laws, establishes basic consumer data rights, and minimizes the impact on innovation.
Avoiding A Biometric Dystopia
(Help Net Security , Jul 16, 2019)
In part one of our two-part series, we explored how biometric authentication methods are being defeated. In the second part, we’ll explore how manipulating biometrics can alter society, and what can be done to avoid a biometric dystopia.
Google Emphasizes Privacy Commitment After Audio Data Leak
(Mobile ID World, Jul 15, 2019)
Google Search Product Manager David Monsees has taken to the company’s blog to emphasize its commitment to privacy and clarify some of its policies around the use of audio data. The post was written after one of the company’s language experts leaked confidential Dutch audio data, with Monsees noting that the leak is a violation of the company’s security policy and that the incident is currently being investigated.
Biometrics System Yielding Results, Says Immigration Chief
(Thai Visa News, Jul 16, 2019)
The word "biometrics" was being bandied about everywhere yesterday when acting immigration chief Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang hosted a press conference. He said that the new system - that just came online at Thai airports and other immigration points - was helping stop people on fake passports and those wanted on other notices.
Experts Slam Storing Of Biometric Data
(Bangkok Post, Jul 16, 2019)
Cybersecurity experts have condemned the government for storing citizens' biometric data like eye and facial images that are at high risk for data leaks
Detroit Residents Voice Opposition To Police Use Of Facial Recognition Software
(Security Watch info, Jul 16, 2019)
During a raucous Board of Police Commissioners meeting Thursday, officers removed a commissioner from the meeting as other cops held back an irate crowd.The board went on to discuss a policy governing the use of facial recognition software, which officials say restricts using the technology to after-the-fact investigations of violent crimes, or when there's a credible threat of terrorism.
Why The U.S. Must Follow Our Lead In San Francisco Or Risk Becoming A Surveillance State
(News Week, Jul 16, 2019)
Technology should work for the public good, not against it. Yet recent revelations that the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are pillaging state driver's license records to conduct facial recognition surveillance recall the controversy beginning in 2013 over secret mass surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Australian Universities Collaborated With Surveillance App And Racial Profiling Tech Developers Linked To China’s Human Rights Abuse Of Uighur People
(Business Insider , Jul 16, 2019)
Two Australian universities are reeling from an explosive Four Corners documentary aired on ABC TV on Monday, which accused them of links to technology used by the Chinese government in its human rights abuses of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang. The documentary detailed a $10 million partnership between the University of Technology Sydney and the state-owned China Electronics Technology Company, which produces military surveillance technology believed to be used to track and detain Uighurs.
EFA Calls For Ban On Face Recognition Tech
(Technology Decisions, Jul 16, 2019)
Electronic Frontiers Australia has called on Australians to reject the use of facial recognition systems for policing and security, warning that the technology could be used to abuse vulnerable groups.
Through New Solutions, Idemia Offers Biometry For All
(International Airport Review, Jul 16, 2019)
magine an airport where you can breeze securely through controls and all restricted-access zones. Biometrics can make this a reality, discusses Franck Maurin, Product and Solutions Director for Passenger facilitation & Border Control at IDEMIA
BIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ:BKYI) Given Consensus Rating of “Strong Buy” by Brokerages
(Riverton Roll, Jul 16, 2019)
An institutional investor recently bought a new position in BIO-key International stock. Vanguard Group Inc bought a new stake in shares of BIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ:BKYI) in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm bought 37,615 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $52,000. Vanguard Group Inc owned about 0.27% of BIO-key International as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Institutional investors own 1.79% of the company’s stock.
