privacy
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The CDC Bought Access to the Location Data of Many Americans
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly bought access to people’s location data from a private date company that was banned by Google, according to documents obtained by reporters at Motherboard through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The public health agency was planning on using that information to track people’s movement…
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Clearview AI’s Dystopian Face Rec Tech Now Being Used to Identify Dead Russian Troops
Notorious U.S. facial recognition technology from Clearview AI is now being used to identify deceased soldiers fallen on the battlefield.
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ID.me’s Remaining Federal Contracts Are in Danger
The Internal Revenue Services’ surprise decision last week to abandon ID.me’s facial recognition verification system has ushered in renewed scrutiny of a handful of federal agencies and 27 states that are still using the embattled company’s identity verification services.
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The IRS Needs to Stop Using ID.me’s Face Recognition, Privacy Experts Warn
Privacy groups are demanding transparency following news that ID.me — the biometric identity verification system used by the IRS and over 27 states — has failed to be entirely transparent in how its facial recognition technology works.