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Let’s see what the Davos set has to say about the IoT

January 23, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This story was originally publish on Jan. 20, 2023 in my weekly IoT newsletter. The glitterati of global government and business were hobnobbing in Davos as part of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting this week. I wasn't there (I couldn't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: privacy, World Economic Forum

BlueScore wants to show you which devices are looking in

August 23, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This story was first published in the Aug. 19 issue of my weekly newsletter.  As consumers become more aware of how much data their devices take in and how often that data gets sold or shared with third parties, Maks Czuperski is hoping there's a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Startups Tagged With: BlueScore, privacy

Can the FTC restore our faith in technology?

August 16, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

This post originally ran on Friday, August 12 in my weekly newsletter.  After reading the Tesla stories this week that prompted Kevin's story above, I tried to talk to my child about our upcoming trip to visit some colleges. In preparation for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, data brokers, FTC, google, privacy

IoT news of the week, February 11, 2022

February 11, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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No, IRS; you can’t ID.me: A few newsletters back, I called attention to some disturbing facial recognition news in the U.S. The Internal Revenue Service was planning to require face scans using ID.me for any citizens accessing or filing their federal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: AI, AirTags, algorithms, Apple, biometric data, biometrics, EnviroSmarts, facial recognition, ioXt Alliance, Microspi, MIT, privacy, robots, WiFi 6E, Wirepas

There actually is a compelling reason for Facebook to continue using facial recognition

November 13, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

Last week on the IoT Podcast, we discussed the news of Facebook ceasing the use of facial recognition across the photos its users upload. From our perspective, this was a big win for the Facebook user community. Why? Users had no control over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessibility, Facebook, facial recognition, privacy

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