Privacy

Taiwan Combines Vaccine Passport With Digital ID Number

Are other countries destined to do the same?

Mastercard Introduces Controversial Biometric Payments That Require a Face Scan

Dystopian future.

New South Wales Begins Digital Birth Certificate Program as Part of Digital ID Push

Major changes.

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.

An End-To-End Encrypted App That Doesn’t Require a Phone Number

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.