Privacy groups claim images are stored indefinitely , even after deletion, in GDPR breach
Jude Karabus Thu 27 May 2021 // 10:46 UTC Share
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Updated Data rights groups have filed complaints in the UK, France, Austria, Greece and Italy against Clearview AI, claiming its scraped and searchable database of biometric profiles breaches both the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The facial recognition company, which is based in the US, claims to have “the largest known database of 3+ billion facial images”. Clearview AI s facial recognition tool is trained on images harvested from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and attempts to match faces fed into its machine learning software with results from its multi-billion picture database. The business then provides a link to the place it found the match .
Just three songs from a playlist can be used to identify its curator from a lineup, a new study claims.
Researchers in Israel conducted experiments to see if song choices could be linked to their curator, even without knowing their music tastes.
They found undergraduate students were able to identify others from three pieces of music – but the experts did not deduce how they did it.
The findings are of concern because streaming giants could potentially identify anonymised users by listening habits, which constitutes a significant threat to privacy disclosure , they say.
According to the researchers, three songs from a playlist are enough to identify the person who chose the songs. Hence, companies like YouTube and Spotify (pictured) can accumulate a great deal of information about their users based only on their music choices
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In this OnPoint we report on the data protection implications of collecting personal data concerning employees’ vaccination status.
Introduction
Employers formulating return to work plans for their employees in accordance with the UK Government’s Roadmap out of Lockdown will need to consider the relevant health and safety requirements, their contractual rights and obligations (as well as those of their employees), employment law and the latest Government guidance for their sector. Whilst many organisations will draw the line at implementing a “no jab no job policy”, they may want to establish which of their employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19, bringing into play important data protection considerations.
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Nawaz’s immigration status protected by law: UK Home Office Murtaza Ali Shah
LONDON: The UK Home Office has commented that it will not release any kind of information on former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s current immigration status as it will be a breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.
This is for the first time that the Home Office has commented on the issue of Nawaz Sharif’s immigration status in the United Kingdom. Until now, only the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) had issued statements that no action will be taken against Nawaz Sharif on the basis of FIRs registered against him in Pakistan or the calls by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government ministers to deport Nawaz Sharif.