Covid
Covid surveillance tech remains open to exploitation
Governments and private companies can still abuse all of the data they collected in the name of Covid.
Senators want DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas to answer for “misleading” testimony about disinformation board
Mayorkas testified that Americans’ speech wouldn’t be monitored. Leaked documents contradict testimony.
Canada’s public health department is challenged on vaccine passports
Curbing civil liberties with no upside.
Digital ID companies thrived during the pandemic. Only now are their privacy claims being challenged.
One of the pandemic “winners” – a member of a large group of companies that appeared and grew exponentially to serve the needs of the government in its chosen way of handling the situation, as most of the economy was standing still – now appears to be in trouble. ID.me’s business is digital ide
Shanghai lockdowns increase market for invasive medical surveillance tech
A security company expects a big uptick in sales.
UK considers vaccine passports for 5-year-olds
The idea is “under review.”
Canadian bank apologizes for freezing civil liberties protester’s account
At the behest of the government.
Doctor pushes back against California’s medical misinformation policy
A speech suppression bill.
Trudeau wants “new tools” to tackle online “misinformation”
No details given.
WHO partners with Deutsche Telekom to push global vaccine passport system
The affront to civil liberties continues.
Alibaba President boasts about tech to monitor people’s travel, consumption, and more to create a “climate” credit score
Promoting the dystopian tech at Davos.
