privacy
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Privacy Advocates Lambast Virginia for Ditching Police Facial Recognition Ban
A patchwork of individual state privacy laws isn’t filling the hole left by absent federal government regulation on facial recognition. Virginia, which approved a ban on local police use of biometric identification tools around a year ago, formally bailed on the law’s most substantive measures on Friday. Now, under an amended bill, law enforcement can implement…
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Oof, the Prospects of That Big New Privacy Bill In U.S. Congress Look Grim
House Republicans want to drastically change a federal privacy bill that Democrats in the Senate are also threatening to murder. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) is one of the few pieces of privacy legislation to get the time of day on Capitol Hill in the last few years — even if looks…
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NSW Government Readies National Digital Birth Certificate
The NSW government and the NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages are now working on digital birth certificates.
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This Coffee Company’s Been Spying on Customers With Its App, According to the Canadian Government
Canadian regulators on Wednesday found that Tim Hortons — a popular fast-food chain owned by the same multinational company as Burger King — changed its mobile app in 2019 to track and collect sensitive location data on its customers.