Privacy and the Pandemic
Singapore Reveals Covid Privacy Data Available to Police | BBC
COVID-19 and Surveillance Tech: Year in Review 2020 | EFF
Government Surveillance
Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country | The Intercept
High Tech Police Surveillance of Protests and Activism: Year in Review 2020 | EFF
After finding Glitch, Massachusetts Suspends Use of Controversial Camera System that Lets Police Track Cars | Boston Globe
Fresno Sheriff’s Office Accused of Ignoring Public Record Laws Over Drone Surveillance | The Fresno Bee
Michigan Governor Says No to Surveillance Cameras in Nursing Home Resident Rooms | Becker’s Hospital Review
Biometric Privacy
Facial Recognition and Beyond: Journalist Ventures Inside China’s ‘Surveillance State’ | NPR
Let’s Face It: Facial Recognition Technology Involves More than Meets the Eye | JDSupra
Banning Government Use of Face Recognition Technology: 2020 Year in Review | EFF
Laws, Regulations, and Legislation
New York Proposes a Narrow Biometrics Privacy Law | BiometricUpdate.com
Aerial Surveillance Plan Advances at St. Louis Board of Aldermen | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Litigation Against Mass NSA Surveillance: Year in Review 2020 | EFF
EU Registers Citizens’ Initiative Seeking Ban on Mass Surveillance Technology | Silicon Republic
Privacy Tools and Techniques
Surveillance Self-Defense and Security Education: Year in Review 2020 | EFF
How to Use OpenPGP Encryption for Emails in Thunderbird | How-To Geek
How to Check Your Holiday Rental for Hidden Surveillance Cameras | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking | The New York Times
T-Mobile Discloses its Fourth Data Breach in Three Years | ZDNet
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