Privacy
Tony Blair Institute For Global Change says increased surveillance is a “price worth paying”
The institute thinks we should ease off on civil liberties for the sake of the pandemic.
UK’s centralized contact tracing corona app aided by UK intelligence agency
The UK, along with France, have rejected a decentralized model.
Poll suggests majority of people support big tech contact tracing
The pandemic has been a big boon for big tech overreach.
WhatsApp was so desperate to suppress conspiracy theories it suppressed everything
Facebook is taking a sledgehammer approach to even private conversations.
Harvard and Arizona law professors lay out the case for online “speech control”
“Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”
US Police begin using surveillance drones donated from China
The use of drones is being encouraged to enforce social distancing measures.
Zuckerberg wants more of your health data to fight the pandemic
Zuckerberg sees people are increasingly relying on big tech during the pandemic.
Bild editor roasts China after China is furious about being blamed for the pandemic
Julian Reichelt said other Western outlets are afraid to.
MembersCorona apps pose a threat to civil liberties and privacy
?Governments are coming up with questionable ways to tackle the pandemic.
MembersYouTube and RSS: moving your channel subscriptions to an RSS reader
?Ditching Google doesn’t mean you have to lose the convenient access to your YouTube subscriptions. Add them to your RSS reader.
Apple is notoriously strict with App Store rules, but gives China’s WeChat a free pass
Owned by state-backed Tencent and increasingly privacy invasive and censorship-driven, why does WeChat why does Apple let
Private messaging app Signal suggests it could pull out of the US market if draconian EARN IT bill is approved
Signal is the latest company to speak out agains the bill.