Ken Macon
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Washington school introduced invasive ankle bracelets for COVID tracing
Parents push back.
British Columbia announces vaccine passports, with no exemptions allowed
Starting next month.
38 million records, including contact tracing information, were exposed online
The problem with increasing data collection.
US-collected biometric equipment and data has fallen into the hands of the Taliban
One of the big problems with invasive data collection.
Apple, Google, and Samsung move to normalize vaccine passports with wallet function
Vaccine passport wallets will soon be built into the operating system.
San Francisco mandates vaccination passports for adults and children over 12
Customers of businesses will have to show proof of double vaccination, making San Francisco the number one city in the US making an affront to civil liberties.
2 million records from US “terror” and “no-fly list” exposed online
It’s not yet known if foreign intelligence agencies accessed the data.
Employers want to use AI to monitor employee health in realtime
The future of work from home?
Protesting vaccine passports for cafés and restaurants, French protesters create a feast in the streets
Protesters are growing by the week.
China is flooding South America with cheap surveillance. At what cost?
What’s China’s end game?
Mayors of two French cities tell police to stand down on vaccine passport enforcement
The pushback is escalating.