The High Court has dismissed the claim for judicial review in Bridges and another v South Wales Police on facial recognition technology. It is thought to be the first time any court in the world has considered automated facial recognition…
Facial recognition in school leads to Sweden’s first GDPR fine The Swedish DPA has fined a municipality 200 000 SEK for using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of students in school. A school in northern Sweden conducted a pilot using facial recognition to keep track of students’ attendance in school. The test run…
Summary of the latest blog post by the AI Auditing Framework team at the ICO…
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ICO publishes statement on Kings Cross facial recognition and launches investigation Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, has issued a statement on the use of live facial recognition technology in King’s Cross. She says: “Scanning people’s faces as they lawfully go about their daily lives…to identify them, is a potential threat to privacy that should concern us…
The ICO’s AI Auditing Framework team’s latest post on their immensely helpful blog accompanying the project looks at the interaction between fully automated decision making and the GDPR….
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Leah Grolman reviews one of the first books to analyse the laws applicable to automated and connected vehicles…
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Contractual terms and privacy policies: how to improve consumer understanding The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published a guide on contractual terms and privacy policies. The guide examines techniques for improving consumers’ understanding of contractual terms, conditions and privacy policies. The focus is on methods offering low-cost, practical and scalable solutions….
John-Paul Tettmar-Saleh presents the third of our series of this year’s Student Essay prize winners ….
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Publication follows identification by the Government that these two areas required “immediate attention”…
European Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon’s use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace is in breach of EU competition rules. The Commission intends to review the standard agreements between Amazon and marketplace sellers,…