Privacy
The EU is continuing to push the idea of a Digital Euro
More centralized control.
Police aren’t happy with facial recognition surveillance bans
More and more states are banning the social media scanning tech.
Members
Circuit Court of Appeals to consider the argument that Florida’s vaccine passport ban is somehow a free speech violation
The hearing takes place this week.
Anonymous app Yik Yak exposed user locations, report alleges
GPS location data.
CDC catalogs lawmakers’ tweets about vaccines, documents reveal
Building a database.
Facebook turns off AR filters in Texas and Illinois over facial recognition legal concerns
Meta is checking the tech is legal.
Rights groups call on Zoom to stop surveilling people’s emotions
“Emotional tracking software.”
Congressman Eric Swalwell says Apple and Google should decide what’s allowed on people’s phones
The congressman echoed Big Tech’s talking points.
Driverless cars record everything, making them moving surveillance machines
Police are increasingly tapping into the data.
Tech platforms support New York bill to ban invasive geofence warrants
Data often gets handed over on everyone in an area at a certain time, or everyone who searched for certain keywords.