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- A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come [wired.com]
"Thousands of law enforcement officials and people applying to be police officers in India have had their personal information leaked online—including fingerprints, facial scan images, signatures, and details of tattoos and scars on their bodies. If that wasn’t alarming enough, at around the same time, cybercriminals have started to advertise the sale of similar biometric police data from India on messaging app Telegram."
Matt Burgess says "the incident highlights the risks of companies collecting and storing biometric data, such as fingerprints and facial images, and how they could be misused if the data is accidentally leaked."
- Privacy Remains an Issue With Several Women's Health Apps [sciencenews.org]
Payal Dhar says that while the women's health app market has millions of users globally, it is amongst the least trusted when it comes to protecting user privacy. Researchers have uncovered 20 of the most popular female health apps in the U.S. and U.K. Google Play Store "covertly gathering sensitive user data, inconsistencies across privacy policies and privacy-related app features, flawed data deletion mechanisms and more."
- Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International "Data Cartels" [themarkup.org]
University students frequently access research materials digitally, which raises concerns about the personal data they are sharing. Tara García Mathewson spoke with Eliza Bettinger, a librarian at Cornell University and member of the Library Freedom Project, which is "a coalition of librarians focused on patron privacy in the era of digital surveillance." "For intellectual freedom," Bettinger says, "you have to have some degree of privacy to explore ideas."
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