Government Surveillance
Surveillance and Local Police: How Technology is Evolving Faster than Regulation | NPR
Group to No Longer Fund Aerial Surveillance Over Cities | Minneapolis Star Tribune
St. Louis Aldermen Endorse 18-Hour Aircraft Surveillance | KY3 AP
Revealed: Massive Chinese Police Database | The Intercept
Germany Expected to Put Right-Wing AfD Under Surveillance for Violating Constitution | NPR
Biometric Privacy
Facial Recognition Tech and Biometrics Under Scrutiny at FTC | JDSupra
Is Data Privacy a Priority for DHS? Policy Compliance Looks an Afterthought — Watchdog Report | BiometricUpdate.com
Laws, Regulations, and Legislation
Why Washington State Could Finally Pass Data Privacy Laws with a Bill Backed by the Tech Industry | GeekWire
Utah Senate Proposal Would Codify Facial Recognition Guidelines | FindBiometrics
New FTC Leadership Likely to Put Consumer Privacy in the Crosshairs | Bloomberg Law
Why Biden Needs to Make Genetic Data Privacy a Top Priority | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Encyrption
Fleeing WhatsApp for Better Privacy? Don’t Turn to Telegram | WIRED
Top Michigan State Police Officials Using Encryption Messaging Apps that Can Evade FOIA | Detroit Free Press
ProtonMail, Threeman, Tresorit and Tutanota Warn EU Lawmakers Over ‘Anti-Encryption’ Push | TechCrunch
Activism
End Two Federal Programs that Fund Police Surveillance Tech | EFF
NYC Surveillance Cameras Targeted in Amnesty International Crowdsource Project | TechNewsWorld
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Biden Administration Faces Mounting Pressure to Address SolarWinds Breach | CNN
SonicWall Breached Via Zero-Day Flaw in Remote Access Tools | CRN
San Francisco Law Firm Investigating PupBox Data Breach | InfoSecurity
2.28M MeetMindful Daters Compromised in Data Breach | ThreatPost
Bonobos Clothing Store Suffers a Data Breach, Hacker Leaks 70GB Database | BleepingComputer
Intel Confirms Unauthorized Access of Earnings-Related Data | DarkReading
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