Ken Macon
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Russia expands invasive biometric pay technology on Metro
Customers pay with their face.
Eufy responds to criticism of its “no cloud” privacy controversy
Questions have been raised about where data gets stored.
Radio City Music Hall uses facial recognition to keep out blacklisted guests
A mother was kicked out after being detected.
Google introduces support for digital driver’s licenses, starting in Maryland
The normalization of digital ID.
Republican Senator Mike Lee introduces bills to target online pornography, introduce online age verification
By defining “obscenity” and introducing online age checks.
Corporate coalition pushes government to create digital ID infrastructure
Major corporations want to see the installation of digital ID.
Senator Elizabeth Warren uses FTX collapse as a reason to introduce surveillance of all crypto wallets
Even though the two events are unrelated.
Twitter bans @ElonJet account that showed location of Elon Musk’s private jet
Twitter’s new policy bans the real-time sharing of someone’s location.
Brazil plots centrally controlled digital currency for 2024
Another push for CBDCs.
Indian citizens that don’t link account numbers to Digital ID will soon face financial blacklisting
Forcing the uptake of digital ID.
Texas Republican introduces bill to force platforms to receive ID documents from users
Stripping away privacy and creating more opportunities for data breaches.