Privacy and the Pandemic
- How the pandemic has exacerbated online privacy threats | Brookings
- Canada’s privacy watchdog probing health officials’ use of cellphone location data | Global News
- German police under fire for misuse of COVID contact tracing app | DW
Minors’ and Students’ Privacy
- Parents suing Facebook allege it profited from kids’ biometric data | BioimetricUpdate.com
Government Surveillance
- US Capitol attack: is the government’s expanded online surveillance effective? | Guardian
- Feds’ spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns | CyberScoop
- Clearview AI’s US law enforcement facial recognition footprint grows with FBI contract | BiometricUpdate.com
- Federal law enforcement keeps signing new facial recognition contracts | FindBiometrics
- New face biometric systems spread around borders but Congress has questions | BiometricUpdate.com
- Europe’s surveillance crisis | Politico
Laws, Legislation, and Litigation
- Four more consumer data privacy bills introduced in US | JD Supra
- Authors of Federal privacy bill and California’s privacy ballot initiative discuss the future of U.S. consumer privacy law | Lexology
Biometric Privacy
- Use of controversial surveillance technology demonstrates the need to limit police power | CBC
- Face biometrics panel in US realizes it has bitten off quite a lot to chew | BiometricUpdate.com
- Facial recognition at U.S. borders questioned on opt-out clarity [paywalled] | Bloomberg Law
- Judge: Punch clock fingerprint scans that violate IL biometrics law place employees at risk, justify insurance denial to employers | Cook County Record
Encryption
- Federal investigators say they used encrypted Signal messages to charge Oath Keepers leader | CNBC
- How Signal is playing with fire | Verge
- Encrypted messaging app Signal’s chief executive steps down | Financial Times
- It takes more than encryption to secure collaboration | UC Today
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