Lawmakers are trying to deter would-be hackers from carrying out cyber attacks that have paralyzed companies, hospital systems and local governments, including Baltimore’s city government.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 21, 2020
The new policies, meant to protect elder privacy, have also drawn criticism because of the requirement that families notify care facilities before they install the camera.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 17, 2020
The data privacy bill would give consumers the right to access and delete data collected about them, while the facial recognition legislation would regulate government use of the software.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 15, 2020
A bill is currently before the state House that would ban government use of biometric technology until the legislature regulates how agencies can adopt it.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 15, 2020
Created in the wake of a shooting at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue, the grant program opened its application process last week.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 14, 2020
The bipartisan measure would allow parents to delete information collected by companies about their kids and raise the age of parental consent protection from 13 to 16.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 13, 2020
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority maintains that it has not used facial recognition on riders, but privacy advocates want records related to the technology the agency purchased.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 10, 2020
The advisory warned businesses about cyber attacks featuring cryptocurrency sites and spam campaigns impersonating government agencies.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jan 08, 2020
Native Americans had the highest rates of false positives, while African-American women were most likely to be misidentified in a law enforcement database.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 24, 2019
Eight Democrats in the House and Senate want to know if public housing residents are included in decisions about facial recognition use.
- By Adam Mazmanian
- Dec 20, 2019
The non-invasive system has been implemented by more transportation authorities around the world to address threats of terrorism in public spaces.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 19, 2019
Thanks to a statewide policy banning law enforcement use of facial recognition for three years, several agencies in San Diego will lose access to a database of facial scans.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The travel companies were fined for lax data security practices that potentially led to a breach affecting 880,000 payment cards globally.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The vote marks the fourth town that has banned facial recognition this year, following Somerville, Mass. and San Francisco and Oakland in California.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
The cyberattack caused the city to completely shut down its network for several days, but did not affect emergency services.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
There is little known about the government’s use of “stingrays,” which tracks the locations of a cell phone and all devices within its range.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The Port of Seattle Commission approved a moratorium on new biometric technology programs on Tuesday amid concern over data privacy and the tool’s accuracy.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The ongoing debate over Apple and Facebook’s decision to not build “backdoors” for law enforcement to obtain encrypted messages continued to rage during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019
The government has not linked the attack to the shooting, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 11, 2019
The shooting in Jersey City lasted for over an hour and ended with a firefight between the suspects and several police officers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019