Been vaccinated? You may have to prove it
Thatâs already the case at Madison Square Garden, and it could soon be true at work and at international borders
By Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff,Updated March 10, 2021, 4:22 p.m.
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Everyone in the audience for a performance of the musician Ivri Lider in Tel Aviv March 5 had to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or full recovery from the disease. As vaccination passports are developed, one concern is that the systems won t be valid in all countries.Oded Balilty/Associated Press
Planning to celebrate your vaccination with a night out at the movies, or dinner, or a day at the ballpark? You might need to bring your passport â vaccine passport, that is.
A breach of the camera start-up Verkada "should be a wake-up call to the dangers of self-surveillance,” one expert said. “Our desire for some fake sense of security is its own security threat.”
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AMONG THE most pernicious aspects of the range of surveillance technologies available to the average police force is how they can render the visible invisible. For instance, you would notice if a police officer walked down your street every day, writing down the licence plates of every car. A police department would have to decide that assigning an officer to that task is worth the time and manpower. But automatic number-plate readers (small, flat cameras attached to the hood or boot of police cars) do the same thing, and unless you know what they look like, you would probably never notice them yet they can compile a granular record of everywhere you drive.
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Don t scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
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Katyanna Quach Mon 8 Feb 2021 // 11:01 UTC Share
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Canada’s privacy watchdog has found Clearview AI in “clear violation” of the country’s privacy laws, and has told the facial-recognition startup to stop scraping images of Canadians and delete all existing photos it has on those citizens.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada launched an official investigation into the upstart’s practices, and as a result Clearview stopped selling its software to Canadian police.