Privacy
Major win for Microsoft in ‘free for all’ data case
The US government cannot force Microsoft to give authorities access to the firm's servers located in other countries, a court has ruled. The decision is being seen as a precedent for protecting the privacy of cloud computing services. The US Department of Justice had wanted to access a server in Ireland, as part of an...
Privacy row over FBI iris scan ‘trial’
The FBI has collected nearly 430,000 iris scans over the past three years, an investigation by technology website The Verge, has revealed. What started as a pilot in 2013 has grown into a database "without any public debate or oversight", said the American Civil Liberties Union. It amounted to "runaway...
Russian Photographer’s Experiment Destroys the Illusion of Privacy
Russian photographer and art student Egor Tsvetkov used his own photos and a facial recognition app to destroy any illusion of privacy we might have with his latest project “Your Face is Big Data.” The aptly named project was simple. First, he took photos of about 100 strangers on the subway. “The people did...