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FTC Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

The report focuses on privacy concerns associated with facial recognition technology, which is becoming increasingly ubiquitous across a variety of commercial applications ranging from search engines to video games to password authentication. In the report, the FTC illustrates through case studies how companies may implement these principles.

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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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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 I’ll save the history lesson for the years between then and today because there are presently 106 blog posts with the HIBP tag you can go and read if you’re interested, let me just talk briefly about where the service is at today.