Privacy
Apple, Google, and Samsung move to normalize vaccine passports with wallet function
Vaccine passport wallets will soon be built into the operating system.
San Francisco mandates vaccination passports for adults and children over 12
Customers of businesses will have to show proof of double vaccination, making San Francisco the number one city in the US making an affront to civil liberties.
Outrage in France as shoppers are denied entry to grocery store for not having a vaccine passport
Anti-vaccine passport shoppers were blocked by police.
Google geofence warrants are increasing at an alarming rate
Law enforcement agencies are outsourcing police work to Google’s vast privacy-invasive network.
FTC issues revised complaint against Facebook
The new complaint is much more extensive.
World Economic Forum pushes new form of surveillance – turning your heartbeat into a digital ID
A proposed idea is to use the invasive technology to track shoppers.
A new blow for the fight against mass surveillance in the US
Ninth circuit dismisses EFF’s challenge to US government’s mass surveillance.
MembersHow to install GrapheneOS on a Pixel smartphone
The only thing standing between your Pixel and Google’s data harvesting is a browser and a USB cable.
Senators quiz Amazon over palm scanning payment technology
The privacy-invading tech is facing some scrutiny.
2 million records from US “terror” and “no-fly list” exposed online
It’s not yet known if foreign intelligence agencies accessed the data.
Afghans race to delete their digital footprint as Taliban takes over
Many are worried their past comments could get them killed under the new regime.
DHS considers using January 6 to justify mass social media surveillance of citizens
A further civil rights challenge, outsourced to private companies.