Privacy
Parler CEO John Matze refutes suggestions GPS data showed Parler users stormed the US Capitol Building
In a statement to the court, Matze said GPS metadata confirms Parler users uploaded and shared video clips of the Capitol storming, not that they were there themselves.
Microsoft, Oracle, and others join new digital vaccine passport coalition
They’re expected to integrate with smartphones and rollout this year.
Encrypted email provider Tutanota reports more than double usual signups
The exodus from Big Tech is underway.
Britain to start digital health passport trials
Supporters of privacy and human rights are, of course, concerned.
Huawei’s patent mentions use of Uighur-detecting surveillance
Proposed technology can detect people’s ethnicity from a distance, and raises several human rights concerns.
Muslim prayer app Salaat First was tracking users
Honeypots are on the rise.
Singapore confirms that police can access coronavirus contact tracing data
The government previously claimed the data would “never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for COVID-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team.”
Israel’s coronavirus surveillance is pushing limits
Anti-terror surveillance measures are being used to track people.
2020 year in review: an unprecedented year of Big Tech censorship and surveillance
The coronavirus and the US presidential election were some of the many events that ushered in a never-before-seen wave of social media censorship and surveillance.
World Economic Forum proposes app that gives “legal ID” to over 1 billion people
A global catalog of people.
UK government contracts firms to make COVID “freedom passports”
An ominous future of travel?
IMF proposes using peoples’ browsing history to determine credit score
Creeping overreach.