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Facial Recognition in Retail: Privacy Concerns Loom as Kroger Tracks Shoppers
Kroger’s facial recognition tech raises concerns over privacy, but critics argue the focus on surge pricing may be obscuring deeper issues of mass surveillance.
Tracking Health or Tracking You? The UK’s Expanding Health Surveillance
Plans to overhaul the NHS are raising concerns about expanding mass surveillance through digital health IDs and wearable tracking devices.
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Cookies Aren’t Dead yet: Google’s New Plan to Keep You Tracked All Over the Internet
A new way to track users.
Meta Brings Back Face Scanning
Meta revives facial recognition in its apps, aiming to tackle scams and enhance account recovery, but privacy concerns loom over the use of sensitive biometric data.
Session’s Escape Plan: How a Visit From Police Pushed It to Leave the Country
Session relocates to Switzerland in response to Australian police visit, reflecting privacy-first stance amid rising global government pressures.
NY Times Criticizes Encryption, Citing “Disinformation Experts” Struggling to Access Private Messages
Critics say the war on encryption is just another attempt to expand surveillance under the guise of combating “disinformation.”
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When Your Car Becomes the Ultimate Witness: Data, Surveillance, and Your Rights
Concerns about over privacy, legality, and ownership rights in a new era of vehicle surveillance.
Biometric and Digital ID in Crisis Zones: Is the Red Cross Paving the Way for a Privacy Nightmare?
The rising tide of biometric surveillance.
Worldcoin’s New Identity: The Rebrand That’s Still Eyeing Your Biometrics for Its Digital ID
Collecting sensitive biometric data, like iris scans, to create a global digital ID system.
Speaker Johnson Puts Brakes on KOSA Over Fears of Big Tech Censorship
Johnson’s opposition to KOSA underscores the growing tension between child safety online and concerns over Big Tech censorship.
Bill Gates Doubles Down on Global Digital ID Push as Critics Sound Alarm on Privacy Risks
Gates insists that properly designed digital IDs will protect personal freedoms.
Logging Into a Brave New World: How Facial Recognition Just Got Personal
Facial recognition tech for login.gov signals the next step in the quiet erosion of privacy, while government assurances struggle to keep pace with rising public concerns over biometric data use.
