Privacy
Bill Gates to invest $6B in “next-generation quarantine methods” and symptom surveillance tech
The project is to be trialed in South Korea.
The failure of the Patriot Act review vote reveals a Senate uninterested in digital freedoms
The Senate has renewed the ability for the FBI to access citizens’ internet history without a warrant.
Facebook’s recent acquisition spree has gained little attention
The media are always complaining about Facebook not censoring enough, but the real threat of Facebook runs deeper.
With Facebook’s GIPHY acquisition, many private messaging apps are now integrated with a Facebook product
They’re mainly the apps used by people who want to avoid Facebook.
India’s contact tracing app is increasingly mandatory
The “unhackable” app has already been hacked.
Indian city Rajkot caught putting names and addressees of coronavirus infected on Google Maps
Authorities are accused of being lax with user data.
UK NHS corona tracing app details leaked in Google Doc accidentally made public
The developers can’t handle a Google Doc and want to handle sensitive user data.
5G roll out brings a new wave of surveillance to Tibet
Surveilling citizens is easier than ever before.
MembersCovid-19 ushers in a new wave of privacy and free speech threats
?Civil liberties have suffered major setbacks.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposes putting sensors on all citizens
Some of people’s biggest fears about coronavirus-sanctioned overreach are coming true.
Canada’s Pension Plan revealed to be major shareholder in Chinese company Tencent, disclosures show
Tencent has long been accused of censorship and surveillance on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, leading to “innocent people’s arrest and torture.”
Apparently, if you don’t want to install a coronavirus tracking app you’re a bad person
An Australian news site tries to shame people who don’t want to be traced.