The US State Department is imposing visa restrictions on 13 people involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware, as well as their spouses and children. “These individuals have facilitated or derived financial benefit from the misuse of this technology, which has targeted journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents and other perceived critics, and […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing new restrictions on the use and disclosure of children’s personal data and wants to make it much harder for companies to exclude children from their services if they can’t monetize their data, the agency announced Wednesday. The proposed overhaul of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) is […]
Clearview AI, the technology firm that has garnered notoriety and government restrictions for its facial recognition software, won an appeal to overturn a penalty issued by the United Kingdom’s privacy watchdog last year. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a formal enforcement notice against the company in May 2022 for unlawfully storing facial images. The […]