Ken Macon
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Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Thomas Massie support D.C bar “closed” for not introducing vaccine passports
The two libertarian politicians turned up at Big Board in D.C.
Many apps caught sending data to brokers
Increasingly common.
Rights groups push back against UK’s encryption ban proposal
A massive threat to privacy.
Capitol Police’s social media surveillance raises civil liberties concerns
Members of Congress don’t even know it’s happening.
Meta’s metaverse plans to track user facial expressions, monetize with data-driven ads
No change in business model.
Italians without a vaccine passport could find it difficult to claim their pensions
Italy’s Green Pass is continuing to divide society.
The IRS will force facial recognition scans on users this summer
Users will have to submit private documents, their social security number, credit history, and even a facial scan to a third party to get their information online.
Western Australia says vaccine passports to access public spaces could last “years”
Civil liberties in Australia are set to be further challenged.
US government plans to force all new vehicles to have a “kill switch”
And a backdoor available to law enforcement.
German police face backlash for using Covid surveillance to track witnesses to a death
It was promised that Covid surveillance would only be used for contact tracing.