Dream Police and the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending September 3rd. 2024

EP206 This week's update takes off from Las Vegas and lands somewhere in Low Earth Orbit. We have databases of faces and how both a police union and the Dutch Data Protection watchdog think they are a bad idea.If they have your face, how do you prove you are you?  That's the next challenge and a proposal from OpenAI and Harvard thinks it'll have you covered.  We might have a different opinion.With elections coming up in the US would you be upset to discover that the code in your voting machine was written and updated by a Russian?  You could not make this stuff up.The Washington Post tells us why it thinks that Pavel Durov should stay in jail  and some security researchers share how you might bypass TSA security the next time you are at an airport.Finally we will soon have fifteen thousand reasons for considering not subscribing to one provider's broadband.The dream police, they live inside of our heads.  Let's check out this week's arresting update.  Find the transcript to the this pod. here.