Privacy
CDC catalogs lawmakers’ tweets about vaccines, documents reveal
Building a database.
Facebook turns off AR filters in Texas and Illinois over facial recognition legal concerns
Meta is checking the tech is legal.
Rights groups call on Zoom to stop surveilling people’s emotions
“Emotional tracking software.”
Congressman Eric Swalwell says Apple and Google should decide what’s allowed on people’s phones
The congressman echoed Big Tech’s talking points.
Driverless cars record everything, making them moving surveillance machines
Police are increasingly tapping into the data.
Tech platforms support New York bill to ban invasive geofence warrants
Data often gets handed over on everyone in an area at a certain time, or everyone who searched for certain keywords.
Google introduces new wallet with support for digital IDs and vaccine cards
Digital ID cards are being normalized by Big Tech.
The EU wants to scan all chat messages, using the guise of combating child abuse
Platforms would be forced to scan conversations, even those that are supposed to be end-to-end encrypted.
EU votes to extend vaccine passes until at least summer 2023
Continuing with the controversial check-point society.
VPN providers question their future in India after anti-privacy law introduction
A new law would require them to collect logs.
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