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Scrapping of Facebook's facial images a 'significant sign,' New Zealand privacy official says

By James Panichi
  • 08 Nov 2021 23:19
  • 09 Nov 2021 03:10
Facebook’s decision to delete more than a billion facial-recognition templates is a “significant sign” that the social-media company is starting to recognize the public’s disquiet with some of its practices, New Zealand’s outgoing privacy chief John Edwards has said.
Speaking in an online seminar*, Edwards said he was surprised to

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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