Privacy
Over 70% of Americans won’t download any contact tracing app
Privacy fears are cited.
New bill could get Big Tech to support free speech and privacy or lose liability protections
The bill could arrive as early as this month.
EU questions the legality of face-scraping analytics company Clearview AI
If Clearview AI was found to be illegal, it would hardly be surprising.
Tool that lets users search the internet by faces gets privacy scrutiny
Critics say it could help stalkers and increase cyber surveillance.
MembersBrazil’s new “fake news” law is a threat to privacy and free speech – and it could signal what’s coming for the US and Europe
? Governments are increasingly looking to cut privacy to tackle “fake news”.
It somehow took the George Floyd protests to get Big Tech to pull back on facial recognition tech
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking whether they want to offer surveillance tech.
Members
More German cities ditch Microsoft, move to open-source tech
Germany is the main country that’s focussed on making the transition.
BBC “worried” that encrypted apps like Signal can’t be searched for “misinformation” in private conversations
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, several social media platforms and apps have happily decided to promote only World Health Organization-approved narratives and news across the world. While social media platforms are doing so to evade “misinformation” on their platform, the director of B
Google is sued for tracking users, even in incognito mode
Google is facing its next privacy challenge.
UK contact tracing app breaches GDPR, will store personal user data for 20 years
The apps have been a privacy nightmare from the start.
How to easily encrypt your files when using cloud storage, so not even the provider can snoop
?This is for those that want to use easy cloud storage but want to keep their files private.