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- California Tried to Protect Students' Data. Tech Companies Found Loopholes [themarkup.org]
"California has a number of laws aimed at protecting children’s data privacy, but those laws have exceptions that allow many tech companies to continue packaging and selling students’ personal information.” A new proposed bill would add more protections for students, but "experts say it may not be enough to prevent companies from selling students' data."
- Ring Cancels Flock Safety Partnership Amid Backlash Over ‘Creepy’ Super Bowl Ad [gizmodo.com]
Super Bowl ads aren't just attention-grabbing…they can have surprising consequences. Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, is "backing away from its planned partnership with surveillance tech company Flock Safety, just days after its Super Bowl ad sparked backlash online."
One person who spoke up was Senator Ed Markey, in an open letter to Amazon: "As many viewers quickly and correctly realized, this technology could easily be used to surveil and identify humans. In fact, last year Amazon rolled out facial recognition technology (FRT) in its Ring doorbells, creating serious privacy and civil liberties risks."
- Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses [nytimes.com]
"Meta, Facebook’s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses... as soon as this year... The feature, internally called 'Name Tag,' would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant."
Yikes. Kashmir Hill, Kalley Huang, and Mike Isaac report on the privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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