Privacy
UK NHS corona tracing app details leaked in Google Doc accidentally made public
The developers can’t handle a Google Doc and want to handle sensitive user data.
5G roll out brings a new wave of surveillance to Tibet
Surveilling citizens is easier than ever before.
MembersCovid-19 ushers in a new wave of privacy and free speech threats
?Civil liberties have suffered major setbacks.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposes putting sensors on all citizens
Some of people’s biggest fears about coronavirus-sanctioned overreach are coming true.
Canada’s Pension Plan revealed to be major shareholder in Chinese company Tencent, disclosures show
Tencent has long been accused of censorship and surveillance on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, leading to “innocent people’s arrest and torture.”
Apparently, if you don’t want to install a coronavirus tracking app you’re a bad person
An Australian news site tries to shame people who don’t want to be traced.
Sony was granted a patent for “spoiler blocking” technology just days before The Last of Us 2 leaks
The technology will control the amount of spoilers a player comes in contact with until they’ve completed enough of the game.
Surveillance is going viral
Rights are being eroded.
How Huawei’s 5G roll-out is directly tied to China’s human rights abuses and “digital gulags”
Nations have more than one reason to reconsider Huawei’s 5G roll-out.
How China appoints 4.5 million “administrators” to snoop on and report neighbors who don’t conform
Coming to a state near you?
Status is the latest privacy-focussed chat app that aims to fix messaging and more
More alternatives are popping up in recent months.
Open source NodeTube allows users to beat censorship and deploy their own YouTube alternative
More YouTube alternatives are finally popping up.