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Digital ID for Pensions? UN Tests Blockchain System Despite Privacy Fears
A blockchain pension tool pitched as a digital public good now carries the undertone of a global ID experiment with far wider ambitions.
Age Verification Lobby Pushes for Age Verification Checks for VPN Use
Privacy tools are being rebranded as loopholes in need of closure.
Google’s Privacy Blunder: Sensitive Data and Kids’ Voices Scooped Up
Thousands of internal reports reveal mishandling of sensitive data, including audio recordings of children on YouTube Kids and exposed addresses on Waze.
New Patent Proposes Digital Surveillance to Vaccinate People Based on Social Credit Style Scores
Another dystopian pandemic-era tech proposal.
Australia to Use Geolocation and Face Recognition to Police Quarantine
The government in Australia continues to be one of the pandemic’s extremest authorities.
GitHub Is Censored in Spain as the Government Attempts to Silence Catalan Protestors
It shows a worrying precedent that governments are willing to shut down access to valuable tools for businesses in their country in order to try and crush any organized display of democracy.
La Liga, Spain’s Professional Football League Has Been Fined for Listening to Users Through an App
La Liga were listening to users to try to find copyright abusers.
Facebook Won’t Let Users Opt-Out of Its Privacy-Violating Phone Number Look Up Tool
This follows Facebook pushing users to submit their phone number in order to secure their account via two-factor authentication last year.
