Privacy
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands lobbies G20 for digital ID
An ID mechanism tied to the ability to make payments.
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounds an alarm about TikTok
Potentially allowing the Chinese Communist Party to collect data.
Police in Spain to deploy automated facial recognition
A database of citizens.
Google is sued for auto-installing Covid “spyware” on people’s phones
Users woke up to find Covid tracing tech on their device without their consent.
New York Fed plots test of centrally controlled digital dollar
Governments are creeping towards controllable currency.
Members
The EU ignores pushback, plots digital ID for 2024
The plans have been criticized by rights groups.
The State of Colorado embraces Apple’s digital ID tech
The next state to support the technology.
Amazon says its in-vehicle surveillance is for employee safety, not to spy on them
Monitoring their every move.
Facial recognition tech is deployed at G20
Just “in case” of a crime.
