Emergen Research indicated in a report the industry around employee monitoring is expected to grow as more employers focus on productivity, especially on work-from-home employees. The report estimates 70% of large employers will be using some kind of software to track employee activity by recording anything from keystrokes to browsing activity by 2025.Full story
The White House published U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order calling for the "safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence" 30 Oct. The order lays out eight guiding principles and priorities for how AI systems should be developed and deployed. Meanwhile, the U.S.
In an op-ed for The Atlantic, Columbia Law School Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology Tim Wu claimed U.S. lawmakers have failed to take any concrete action to protect children online in more than a decade. Wu, a former Biden White House official, said U.S.
Democrat-appointed members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board wrote in a Washington Times op-ed that while Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a valuable tool to protect against national security threats, its "value wanes as it is used to search for communications of Americans." The PCLOB members called for Congress to impose a search warrant requirement for government agencies looking to review U.S.
The Berlin Regional Court, Landgericht Berlin, banned LinkedIn's alleged practice of ignoring user tracking opt-outs, the Federation of German Consumer Organisations announced. The court also said the platform could no longer make a member's profile visible on other websites as a default setting.Full story
The dating application Grindr sued the Norwegian data protection authority, Datatilsynet, after it was fined NOK65 million for sharing user locations and advertiser information with marketing partners, NRK reports.
French Member of European Parliament Philippe Latombe filed an appeal of the EU General Court decision to reject his original petition for annulment of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Latombe's appeal argues, in part, the U.S. Data Protection Review Court is not an independent tribunal because it was created by presidential executive order and not an act of Congress and U.S.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against software company SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer Timothy Brown in connection with a two-year cyberattack against the company.
U.S. President Joe Biden will release a new policy detailing how other countries should respond to ransomware attacks and its plans to share data about attackers, Reuters reports. The policy framework aims to make it easier to track the culprits and discourage paying ransoms, which the White House continues to advise against.Full story
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and fellow House Democrats introduced a bill to regulate law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology. The bill would require a warrant stating there is probably cause an individual allegedly "committed a serious violent felony" before facial recognition can be used.