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08
2020
Washington Post
Geoffrey A. Fowler
August 27, 2020
I couldn’t pick just one crazy thing to say about the Halo, Amazon’s new wearable health gadget. So here are three:
Mirror, mirror on the wall, Amazon thinks you’re fat.
The artificial intelligence would like you to stop sounding overwhelmed now.
That nagging voice inside your head is now on your wrist.
The Halo is a $100 wrist-worn device that, among other functions, listens to your conversations so you can understand how you sound to others. And it comes with a companion app that scans your body three-dimensionally to track your progress gaining your “quarantine 15.”
Amazon is upfront about these invasive functions, which users of the Halo have to opt into using. What’s revealing is that one of tech’s biggest companies thinks consumers in 2020 might want them.
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Categories : Biometrics, Data Marketplace, Data Mining, FIP 3: One use, Privacy
20
08
2020
Washington Post
Editorial Board
May 1, 2020
THE PING of a smartphone usually means a text from a friend or a news story from a favorite publication. Soon enough, it could instead signal that it’s time to stay inside for 14 days. Technologists are coding furiously to create a plan for digital contact tracing that, paired with traditional manual methods and widespread testing capability, could ease the country out of lockdowns. But before the United States bets on Silicon Valley to solve its problems, leaders ought to ask themselves two questions: How well does it work, and how high is the cost?
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Categories : Biometrics, contact tracing, Crossed Streams: Gov + Commercial, FIP 2: Discover, FIP 3: One use, FIP 4: Repair, FIP 5: Protect the data you have
20
08
2020
Chicago Tribune
Ally Marotti
May 14, 2020
Illinois Facebook users could soon learn if they’re eligible for up to $300 as part of a class-action settlement alleging the social media giant violated state privacy law with its facial tagging feature.
Attorneys representing users filed court documents last week showing class members are estimated to receive between $150 and $300 as part of a massive $550 million settlement reached in January. There is no timeline set on notification or payout, and a federal judge in San Francisco must approve the details.
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Categories : Biometrics, Data Mining, facial recognition, Privacy, State law
18
08
2020
LAT/AP
May 19, 2020
NASHVILLE —
“Public health officials in at least two-thirds of U.S. states are sharing the addresses of people who have the coronavirus with first responders, sparking concerns of racial profiling in communities already mistrustful of law enforcement.
An Associated Press review of those states found that at least 10 of them also share the names of everyone who tests positive.”
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Categories : Biometrics, Crossed Streams: Gov + Commercial, Data Mining, Privacy, Surveillance
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08
2020
Epic
June 24, 2020
Yesterday, the Boston City Council
voted unanimously to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the city of Boston. The
ordinance noted the “racial bias in face surveillance” and makes it illegal for the city of Boston to “obtain, retain, possess, access, or use any face surveillance system.” Several municipalities in Massachusetts have already banned the use of facial recognition. EPIC previously
testified before the Massachusetts Legislature in support of a bill to establish a moratorium on the use of
facial recognition by state agencies. EPIC has launched a campaign to
Ban Face Surveillance and through the
Public Voice coalition gathered the
support of over 100 organizations and many leading experts across 30 plus countries. An EPIC-led coalition has also
called on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to recommend the suspension of face surveillance systems across the federal government.
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Categories : Biometrics, facial recognition, local law enforcement, Privacy, Surveillance, Uncategorized
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