Privacy
French Resistance: Only half of Paris cafés and restaurants are demanding draconian vaccine passports
Despite facing prison, restaurant owners are fighting back.
Vaccine passports hit The Vatican
Museums are now copying Italy’s strict COVID passport rules and adopting Italy’s “Green Pass”.
They should give us “a truncheon and a pistol” says French restaurant owner asked to enforce vaccine passports
In Macron’s France, waiters are acting as law enforcement over vaccine passports.
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Italy to introduce vaccine passports for public transport
From September 1st.
Judge issues injunction against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vaccine passport ban
DeSantis’ attempt to protect civil liberties is crushed.
Vaccine Passports likely to arrive in Australia before the end of the year
Australia is set to further its curtailing of civil liberties.
Vaccine passports are a privacy nightmare
If this catches on, the future is bleak.
Apple’s plan to scan users’ private photos and messages branded “mass surveillance for the entire world”
Privacy experts fear that that Apple’s new surveillance tech will constantly be expanded and misused.
Biden administration defends provision in infrastructure bill that would make it harder for decentralized Big Tech challengers
Cementing the dominance of Big Tech.
Yelp moves to normalize vaccine passports
Showing which business are adding to the encroachment on civil liberties.