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Privacy Group Files FTC Complaint Regarding Facebook’s Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

According to a post on The Facebook Blog , the Tag Suggestions feature matches uploaded “new photos to other photos [the user is] tagged in.” In addition, EPIC alleges that Facebook has not stopped application developers, the government or other third parties from accessing “Photo Comparison Data” the company compiles.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Sooner or later, big repositories of data will be abused.

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