Privacy During the Pandemic
Vaccine passports could prove to be a privacy minefield for regulators | CNBC
GOP says pandemic justifies special tracing rules in Kansas | The State
Gavel to Gavel: Employee privacy and COVID-19 | The Journal Record
San Diego restaurant taps facial recognition kiosk as part of COVID recovery | Kiosk Marketplace
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
NYCLU’s court fight over Lockport’s facial recognition system continues | Security InfoWatch
Government Surveillance
The Unsettling Surveillance of Anti-Asian Racism | The Verge
The Government is Racing to Deploy AI, But at What Cost to Our Freedom? | ACLU
Politicians voice privacy concerns about US border remote video surveillance plans | IFSEC Global
South Florida law enforcement using facial recognition technology to identify criminals | Local 10
Virginia State Police admit — after repeated denials — that they used controversial facial recognition app | Daily Press
Expansion of Facial Surveillance at Airports Seen as a Growing Threat to Civil Liberties | Milwaukee Independent
CBP introduces Simplified Arrival process at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport | News is my Business
CBP expands Simplified Arrival in RGV | Planet Biometrics
DBP Introduces Simplified Arrival at SJU in San Juan, Puerto Rico | Imperial Valley News
China found using surveillance firms to help write ethnic-tracking specs | Reuters
Biometric Privacy
How Your Car Became a Surveillance Weapon | National Law Review
You Can Run But You Cannot Hide: AI Tools That Do More Than Recognize Your Face [paywalled] | Law.com
How Musicians and Sex Workers Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans | Vice
The Hidden Hand of Facial Recognition in the Capitol Insurrection Manhunt | HuffPost
Belarusian Facial Recognition Firm Helped Build Photo Editor, Messenger, Fitness Apps | Kharon
Facial recognition camera projects raise concerns in Eastern Europe | ZDNet
EU expresses ‘critical concerns’ with parliament’s biometric register | BiometricUpdate.com
Rights group says there’s no transparency in face biometrics use by Brazilian government | BiometricUpdate.com
Laws, Regulations, and Legislation
Virginia lawmakers ban police use of facial recognition | ABC News
Illinois Chamber of Commerce seeks changes to Biometric Information Privacy Act | The Center Square
Encryption
Fully Secure Messaging Needs More Than End-To-End Encryption | Forbes
Role of Encryption in GDPR Compliance | Security Boulevard
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
University of Miami investigates data breach | South Florida Business Journal
FatFace sends controversial data breach email after ransomware attack | BleepingComputer
MobiKwik investigating data breach after 100M user records found online | TechCrunch
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