Privacy
Human rights group shows how pandemic has caused a severe drop in internet freedoms
Freedom House, a US government-funded non-profit, recently published a report titled “The Pandemic’s Digital Shadow,” detailing how the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing surveillance and “fueling digital repression worldwide.” The report says that several nations across the world have been using
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Google caught not deleting data from from Google.com and YouTube.com even when asked to
Google says it’s a mistake.
Facial recognition is coming for hospital patients
Privacy implications are inevitable.
Florida likely to be first state to get digital driving licenses, raising privacy concerns
Other states will likely follow.
Sony to start listening to private PlayStation chat recordings for “safety and moderation”
Players could have their accounts and PlayStation systems suspended based on these recordings.
French museum censors after China’s demands
And it involves the Mongol population – who China keeps under 24-hour surveillance.
Tech companies race to create social distancing surveillance tech to police the public
Big players in Japan and in the US are joining the race.
US government refuses to let Twitter tell people how much FISA warrant spying it’s doing on the platform
Twitter wants to be able to tell users how many times they’ve had to hand over user data.
IRS accused of buying smartphone data from unsuspecting surveillance targets
Data was collected without the targets’ knowledge.
Google handed over to police data on everyone who searched for certain terms
While in this case they got the right guy, the practice raises privacy implications.