by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
Tech companies that use facial recognition and other biometrics were handed a loss by the Illinois Supreme Court which dismissed a case that would have rolled back a state law limiting the collection of such personal data. The Illinois Chamber of Commerce deplored the...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
California’s The Nonprofit Alliance is worried that its members may be unfairly targeted by the state’s tough new privacy rules which took effect early this January. The group wants an amendment to the law that specifies an exemption for nonprofits over the matter of...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Chief Data Officer, Civic Data & Tech, Data Privacy & Security
Unwilling to wait any longer for the federal government to act, legislators in Washington State are pushing for tougher rules and greater protections over the personal data that tech companies gather on their consumers. Companies that fail to comply with the proposed...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Civic Data & Tech
Increasing apprehension about the threat of AI techniques to data security and privacy has led Facebook to make a grant of $7.5 million towards the foundation of a new and independent AI ethics research Center. Joaquin Candela, Facebook’s director of applied learning,...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Unreliable employees are the weakest link in any company’s security posture claims Max Emilianov, CEO of HostForWeb, a Chicago-based web services provider. “It doesn’t matter how much money you invest into point solutions and hardened architecture. It doesn’t matter...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
How can companies verify if their customer is who he or she claims to be? Passwords, phone numbers, email addresses, facial scans, etc., can and have been used as identifiers. But such identifiers can be stolen and misused and the damage done by such actions can only...