If you've ever used a dating app, your data has likely been collected and shared across the Internet. How do dating - and other types of apps - use your data? Advocate R.J. Cross explains. She has more to say about this and other important issues at U.S. PIRG … [Read more...] about How Do Dating Apps Use My Data? A Video Explainer in time for Valentine’s Day
Privacy
Help shape Ontario’s Digital ID Program
The Ontario government is seeking input on its plan to introduce a digital ID program by the end of 2021 that would enable Ontarians to conveniently prove their identity online. Individuals could use digital ID to prove their identity when: checking in for virtual medical appointments getting a birth, marriage or death certificate applying for government … [Read more...] about Help shape Ontario’s Digital ID Program
Unintended consequences of revealing mental health issues
On the convergence of Data Privacy Day and Bell Let's Talk, let's think of the unintended consequences of revealing mental health issues on social media platforms where "any information you share may be read, collected, or used by other users" including other social media platforms. Publicly available posts can be monitored and collected by law enforcement and border agencies — … [Read more...] about Unintended consequences of revealing mental health issues
Facial recognition: strict regulation is needed to prevent human rights violations
The Council of Europe has issued new guidelines calling for strict rules to avoid the significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technologies. The guidelines also call on governments to ban certain applications of facial recognition altogether to avoid discrimination and human rights violations. … [Read more...] about Facial recognition: strict regulation is needed to prevent human rights violations
Facial Recognition Cameras Here to Stay as Country’s Court System Entrenches Video Surveillance
Since the mid-2019 announcement of plans for a facial recognition system on the scale and with the capabilities of the one in place in Beijing, Moscow has installed over 100,000 cameras, with plans to have over 200,000 facial recognition cameras active when all is said and done. Authorities have been using the system for law enforcement purposes, to track foreigners, and to … [Read more...] about Facial Recognition Cameras Here to Stay as Country’s Court System Entrenches Video Surveillance
