Covid
There’s about to be a big push to encourage people to pay with their face
Despite all privacy concerns.
British study suggests majority of people support giving up privacy to tackle coronavirus
People apparently support tracking and immunity passports.
Welsh party Plaid Cymru suspended council member after his posts were flagged as “misinformation” by Facebook
Williams shared links to content that said the death rate is “the same as it would be any other year.”
Microsoft, Oracle, and others join new digital vaccine passport coalition
They’re expected to integrate with smartphones and rollout this year.
UK Police fine citizens for lockdown breach Instagram posts, want new powers to enter homes
The escalation coincides with Britain’s third national lockdown.
UK Labour Party leader calls for laws to curb vaccine skepticism
Sir Keir Starmer wants laws to crush dissent.
Updated: TalkRadio, one of the UK’s biggest radio stations, banned by YouTube
Senior ministers have condemned Google’s move.
Singapore confirms that police can access coronavirus contact tracing data
The government previously claimed the data would “never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for COVID-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team.”
Israel’s coronavirus surveillance is pushing limits
Anti-terror surveillance measures are being used to track people.
#DisruptTexts campaign aims to cancel classic literature in classrooms
Activists are judging texts of the past to the extreme intolerances of today.
Twitter blocks medical journal after it published a positive study on Ivermectin treatment for coronavirus
An entire journal censored.
2020 year in review: an unprecedented year of Big Tech censorship and surveillance
The coronavirus and the US presidential election were some of the many events that ushered in a never-before-seen wave of social media censorship and surveillance.