Privacy
Florida likely to be first state to get digital driving licenses, raising privacy concerns
Other states will likely follow.
Sony to start listening to private PlayStation chat recordings for “safety and moderation”
Players could have their accounts and PlayStation systems suspended based on these recordings.
French museum censors after China’s demands
And it involves the Mongol population – who China keeps under 24-hour surveillance.
Tech companies race to create social distancing surveillance tech to police the public
Big players in Japan and in the US are joining the race.
US government refuses to let Twitter tell people how much FISA warrant spying it’s doing on the platform
Twitter wants to be able to tell users how many times they’ve had to hand over user data.
IRS accused of buying smartphone data from unsuspecting surveillance targets
Data was collected without the targets’ knowledge.
Google handed over to police data on everyone who searched for certain terms
While in this case they got the right guy, the practice raises privacy implications.
UK to trial world’s first coronavirus passport technology
COVID passports used to be dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
Bar owners in France arrested for not tracking users when offering free WiFi
This is why people need to use a VPN on public WiFi.
UK citizens are being refused entry to businesses unless they download contact tracing app
The supposedly optional app is being forced on citizens less than a week after launch.
Amazon wants to keep your palm data on its servers for a new payment method
Amazon thinks it’s the future.