Ken Macon
Ken is a teacher and contributor who focuses on researching and reporting on mass surveillance and privacy rights across the world. [email protected]
France takes to the streets to protest vaccine passports
Citizens are speaking out against the crushing of civil liberties.
UK rushes to judgement, many call for social media platforms to collect ID following racist comments from foreign bot accounts
If it’s true that most of the racist Euro 2020 final comments came from foreign bots, handing over ID would create a civil liberties crisis and do nothing so solve the issue.
US government agencies are using facial recognition tech with almost no oversight
A new report has the findings.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for mandatory vaccine passports
Calling for threats on civil liberties has become mainstream.
Abu Dhabi justifies introducing invasive facial scanning by saying it “detects COVID-19”
The tech will be used in residential areas and shopping malls.
Nail salon in Dubai installs microchips on customers’ nails
The chip has worrying implications for the future of privacy invasion and tracking.
Massachusetts Android users alarmed to wake up to COVID tracking app auto-installed
Even devices using parental controls to prevent app downloads had the app forced on them.
California unveils new vaccine passport
But they don’t want you to call it a “vaccine passport.”
House Democrats get targeted in surveillance operation made legal through laws they voted for
The same members are happy for such surveillance to be used against others, but not them.
Linux Foundation unveils COVID Certificate Network
The foundation hopes the controversial idea will be used internationally.
England introduces vaccine passports for Euro 2020 games
What was once dismissed as a conspiracy theory has come to pass.