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]
UK looks set to embrace World Economic Forum’s idea of immunity passports
The system they said would never happen appears to be arriving soon.
The UK government considers domestic vaccine passports it promised it wouldn’t introduce
Digital access to play sports and enter pubs and restaurants.
LAPD requested Amazon Ring surveillance footage of protests and riots
Increasingly common.
UK government reportedly considering phone GPS tracking to enforce quarantine
A privacy-invasive move.
UK lawmaker suggests GPS tracking people to enforce quarantine
Mandated privacy invasion.
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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo breaks records
Over 100 million searches per day.
Microsoft, Oracle, and others join new digital vaccine passport coalition
They’re expected to integrate with smartphones and rollout this year.
Britain to start digital health passport trials
Supporters of privacy and human rights are, of course, concerned.
Muslim prayer app Salaat First was tracking users
Honeypots are on the rise.