Privacy
Japan and Turkey are testing digital currencies combined with digital ID
Plans to end privacy.
Dutch finance minister proposes increased financial surveillance
Monitoring of transactions over 100 euro.
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India’s PM says 5G rollout will help boost the use of surveillance
Facial recognition, automatic number plate recognition tech, and drones.
Russia uses facial recognition surveillance network to find draft-avoiders
Russia has grown its CCTV network in recent years.
Iran’s government is partnering with mobile carriers to track devices, documents show
As protests spread across the country.
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Signal says it will leave India if the government bans encrypted messaging
Rather than end privacy.
Residents push back after Oxford, England proposes dystopian surveillance system that limits driving
Expanding a surveillance network to control traffic and limit travel.
Austria gets its first digital ID in the form of a driver’s license app
States in the US are watching the rollout.