Privacy
Decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky arrives in beta
Currently invite-only.
World Health Organization pushes for global vaccine passports
The unelected health agency wants to make this Covid-era surveillance tech permanent.
World Health Organization is getting closer to being granted expanded surveillance powers
The unelected agency could finalize the powers by 2024.
US State Department funded website blacklist of outlets that reported lab leak theory
Demonetizing outlets that reported the likely truth.
Privacy activists lament after biometrics are used at Nigerian polls
Major privacy concerns.
Members
Tony Blair praises Estonia for its digital ID system, where babies are given a digital ID at birth
Wants other countries to follow.
Republicans race to stop Biden giving WHO power over pandemic surveillance, controlling “disinformation”
The accord is expected to be finalized this week.
Signal says it will pull out of the UK if the government tries to end privacy
Threats to encryption.
Japanese doctors are pushing back against medical digital ID
Tied to medical insurance.
Researchers develop AI for monitoring real-time behavior of citizens in cities
Monitoring behaviors.