Privacy
UK plots facial recognition tech for “contactless” border crossings
New privacy concerns.
Tim Hortons offers customers a free coffee and baked item in settlement for spying on people
The company’s invasive tracking was revealed this year.
If the Secret Service bans end-to-end encrypted messages, phone networks would be able to snoop on SMS texts
Privacy concerns vs public record.
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Google hands over home security camera footage to police without a warrant
The same as Amazon.
Bipartisan bill aimed at protecting kids online would require Big Tech to spy on them
More kids’ data collection.
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British Communist Party professor, who supported surveillance methods during Covid, joins the WHO
Joining the “behavioral insights” devision.
UK grocery store Co-op’s live facial recognition cameras face legal complaint
The first known legal complaint against facial recognition in retail.
New bill aims to make digital ID pervasive in the United States
New privacy concerns.