World’s Iris-Scanning Halted in Thailand as Officials Demand Data Destruction
Thailand has ordered World, the biometric ID project backed by Sam Altman, to halt all iris-scanning operations and erase 1.2 million biometric records following violations of the country’s data protection law. Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Committee issued the directive on Nov. 24, saying World failed to secure proper consent and posed heightened risks by storing […] Powered by...
Share-Online Operator Gets Two Years Probation in Landmark ‘Cyberlocker’ Verdict
In October 2019, an international police operation brought an abrupt end to Share-Online.biz, the largest file-hosting platform in Germany at the time. The raids, which targeted data centers in the Netherlands and France as well as residential addresses in Germany, resulted in the seizure of many servers and the shutdown of a platform that served more than a million registered users. Files stored on Share-Online were typically...
