Pretty Good Phone Privacy: An easy fix to mask user location from carriers
Amid the deluge of news about third-party apps tracking users without their consent and profiting by selling their private information,...
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UK think tank is crowdsourcing evidence on digital health passport risks & benefits for government rollouts
UK-based Ada Lovelace Institute is gathering evidence on the legal, ethical, social, and health challenges of deploying digital health passports and...
A skeptical look at the ‘great reset’: a technocratic agenda that waited years for a global crisis to exploit
In the face of a global pandemic, an un-elected body of global bureaucrats based in Davos, Switzerland has asked the...
Former FTC commissioners call for robust federal privacy law under FTC authority: Senate hearing
Four former commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testify that the US needs a robust federal privacy law, with...
CBP doesn’t consistently notify air travelers about facial recognition tech use, privacy: GAO
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is not consistently notifying travelers about its use of facial recognition technology or privacy options...
‘The future’s gonna be weird’: Musk says memories could be downloaded into a new body or robot
"The future's gonna be weird," said Elon Musk as he calmly described how Neuralink could one day allow people to...
Bill to ban TikTok on government devices passes unanimously on Senate floor: Sen Hawley announces
The Senate votes unanimously to ban popular video app TikTok from government devices with the passing of the "No TikTok...
Big tech censorship reignites call for an Internet Bill of Rights
The idea of an Internet Bill of Rights has been floating around for years, but recent accusations of big tech...
Majority of govt-backed COVID-19 tracing apps are woefully insecure in rush to market: report
The majority of government sponsored COVID-19 tracing apps are improperly secured, and in their rush to market, app developers leave...
Businesses are turning to more secure communication tools to avoid govt overreach: encryption platform report
A new report from encryption platform Wickr infers that businesses operating in countries whose governments support contact tracing are turning...
‘Contact tracing apps should be strictly voluntary, no forced adoption’: Natl Security Commission on AI
A National Security Commission on AI white paper says that contact tracing apps can provide value in helping to control...
‘We must not let coronavirus response be a cover to restrict our human rights’: Committee to Protect Journalists advocacy director
Privacy, the freedom to access and share information, the freedom to peacefully assemble, and the freedom of expression are all...
Big tech COVID-19 surveillance data & censorship threaten privacy & free speech: op-ed
Big tech companies are collecting enormous amounts of data on the movement of private citizens while censoring free speech and...
COVID-19 data collection poses post 9/11 privacy abuse risks: CNAS, DataGovHub panel
Massive data surveillance, warrantless wiretapping, and the weaponization of intelligence agencies against private citizens were all conducted in the name...
Privacy advocates testify on preventing COVID-19 data from being exploited: Senate ‘Paper Hearing’
The amount of data being tracked and shared between tech companies, health organizations, and government bodies in response to COVID-19...
On govts using data surveillance to combat coronavirus: Q & A with The Sociable team
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Several countries around the world have started to analyze the location data from citizens’ mobile devices as a means to...
‘We don’t want to be at the mercy of Facebook’: social app developer on the importance of filing patents
Filing a patent is an important step towards building the product that you want while providing legal protections to you...
Will this be the last time Brazil uses facial recognition technology at Carnival?
Carnival, for most Brazilians, is synonymous with samba, sweat, and caipirinhas. Some of the best parties of the year take...
Teens on TikTok: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Video app TikTok is quickly rising in popularity, especially among teenagers, but with safety, privacy, and national security concerns, do...
FBI worries Facebook’s privacy first policy will be a ‘child predator’s dream’
An incredibly sensitive subject -- Facebook is looking to push a privacy first policy with end-to-end encryption, but the FBI...
