Privacy
“You won’t answer the question” – Senator Rand Paul confronts FBI on scooping up online user data
Wray refused to give a direct answer.
New Zealand’s quarantine program utilizes digital ID wallets
A partnership with Microsoft’s cloud.
The Qatar World Cup is a testing ground for dystopian “pay-by-face” tech
Similar to the technology implemented in China.
Ireland’s state-owned postal service to introduce digital ID
New partnership.
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Canadian credit union to track transactions and tie them to carbon footprints
Normalizing social nudging through transactions.
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands lobbies G20 for digital ID
An ID mechanism tied to the ability to make payments.
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounds an alarm about TikTok
Potentially allowing the Chinese Communist Party to collect data.
Police in Spain to deploy automated facial recognition
A database of citizens.
Google is sued for auto-installing Covid “spyware” on people’s phones
Users woke up to find Covid tracing tech on their device without their consent.
New York Fed plots test of centrally controlled digital dollar
Governments are creeping towards controllable currency.
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