Yesterday the panel established by President Obama to review the surveillance practices of the NSA released its final report. One important dimension relates to the possible privacy protections of non-US citizens abroad. You can find the Review Group’s report HERE. The report does not elaborate on the international human rights law obligations of the US […]

Social media network Facebook holds an immense collection of people’s personal photos, and has just acquired the Israeli tech company face.com (which has been developing facial recognition plugins and apps for online services). Face.com’s algorithms are being developed not just to identify individuals but their age and gender too; a recent face.com blog notes: “The uses […]