Privacy During the Pandemic
Privacy in a Pandemic — The Conundrum of COVID-19 Check-In Solutions | Lexology
Digital Rights in Southeast Asia 2020/2021 [exploring the impact of contact-tracing on privacy and COVID-19 disinformation] | Digital Reach Asia
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
NU [Northwestern University] Faces Lawsuit for Improperly Capturing and Storing Students’ Biometric Data | The Daily Northwestern
Government Surveillance
CBP Expands Facial Biometrics to Preclearance Locations in Canada | U.S. Customs and Border Protection
New York City’s Surveillance Battle Offers National Lessons | WIRED
Surveillance: Types, Uses, and Abuses [primer] | The Great Courses Daily
Exclusive: Half London Councils Found Using Chinese Surveillance Tech Linked to Uighur Abuses | Reuters
Laws, Regulations, and Legislation
Minneapolis Passes Restrictive Ban on Facial Recognition Use by Police, Others | Minneapolis Star Tribune
Biometric Privacy
CBP Announces New Facial Biometric Comparison Technology at Calexico, CA | U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Kidnap Capital Mexico Eyes Biometric Phone Registry, Sparking Privacy Fears | U.S. News & World Report
EU Civil Rights Groups Want Ban on Biometric Surveillance Ahead of New Laws | Reuters
Patent Filings Suggest Dual Biometrics from Apple, Mask-Agnostic Facial Recognition from GBT | BiometricUpdate.com
Clearview [AI] Describes Invasive Profiling Technology in New Patent Application | FindBiometrics
AnyVision Patent Filing Suggests Face Biometrics for Delivery Drones | BiometricUpdate.com
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Tracker Pixels in Emails are Now an ‘Endemic’ Privacy Concern | ZDNet
A Data Breach is Exposing Big Law Firms who were Using a 20-Year-Old System for Handling Sensitive Documents | Business Insider
Jones Day [law firm] Hit by Data Breach as Vendor Accellion Hack Widens | Bloomberg Law
California DMV Hit by Data Breach, Exposing 20 Months of Personal Information to Hackers | SFGATE
Reviews
“Judas and the Black Messiah” is a Window into FBI’s Surveillance Apparatus | Capital & Main
The Long History of the FBI’s Surveillance of Martin Luther King | The Nation
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