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FTC Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

The report, which was developed after a workshop on facial recognition technology and subsequent public comments requested by the FTC, sets forth several best practices for the use of facial recognition technology. In the report, the FTC illustrates through case studies how companies may implement these principles. Commissioner J.

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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

There's a verification process where control of the domain needs to be demonstrated (email to a WHOIS address, DNS entry or a file or meta tag on the site), after which all aliases on the domain and the breaches they've appeared in is returned. And then it took off.

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

Troy Hunt

million records on US consumers (this started a series events which ultimately led to me testifying in front of Congress ), South Africa had data on everyone living in the country (and a bunch of deceased folks as well) leaked by a sloppy real estate agent and data from Australia's Medicare system was being sold to anyone able to come up with $30.

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