Privacy and the Pandemic
The Pandemic has Taken Surveillance of Workers to the Next Level | The Guardian
The Workplace of the Future Will Probably Remain Under Surveillance | Maclean’s
Data Breaches and Privacy Challenges: A Pandemic Year in Review | Law.com
Privacy Risks Persist with DIY COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps | TechRepublic
Government Surveillance
Pervasive Surveillance Tactics Have Haunted Muslim Americans for Years | HuffPost
Controversial Aerial Surveillance Plan Pushed Again for St. Louis | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Huawei Worked on Several Surveillance Systems Promoted to Identify Ethnicity, Documents Show | The Washington Post
Cuba: San Isidro Movement and Allies Under Frightening Levels of Surveillance | Amnesty International
Biometric Privacy
DHS Advisory Committee Issues Report on Biometrics | JDSupra
2.5M Biometric Payment Cards in 2021 Could be First Step for Future ‘De Facto Payment Type’ | BiometricUpdate.com
Slouching Towards Dystopia
We Must End the Era of Adjunct Surveillance | TechCrunch
The Rapid Rise of Phone Surveillance Systems | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Augmented Reality and the Surveillance Society | Spectrum
Encryption
Signal Group Video Calls with End-to-End Encryption Debut on Android, iOS for Up to 5 Participants | Gadgets 360
The Same U.S. Government That Wants to Weaken our Encryption Just got Massively Hacked | Reason
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Scope of Russian Hack Becomes Clear: Multiple U.S. Agencies Were Hit | The New York Times
Data Leak Exposes Details of Two Million Chinese Communist Party Members | InfoSecurity
Spotify Changes Passwords After Another Data Breach | ThreatPost
Fake Data Breach Alerts Used to Steal Ledger Cryptocurrency Wallets | BleepingComputer