Government Surveillance
How to Stop your City from Spying on You [podcast] | ACLU
Biometric Privacy
PCLOB to Review Airport Facial Recognition | Planet Biometrics
Schools are Scanning Fingerprints and this Mumsnet User Isn’t Happy | ProPrivacy
Privacy International Calls for new UN Guidelines for Biometrics in Counter-Terrorism | BiometricUpdate.com
Encryption
The Feds Face-Off with Silicon Valley Tech Giants | SecurityInfoWatch.com
Providers not Using Encryption Enough for Data in the Cloud | Health Data Management
Latest Technology Could Miss Australia due to Encryption Laws: Telstra | ZDNet
Laws and Regulations
Facing the Issue: San Francisco Bans City Use of Facial Recognition Technology | JD Supra
International Coalition Renews Call for Australian Parliament to Amend its Dangerous Encryption Law | New America
EPIC Launches Campaign for U.S. Data Protection Agency | Epic
Why national preemption has become a technology policy flash point | Brookings Institute
The New York Privacy Act goes beyond GDPR and introduces idea of “data fiduciary” | Reclaim the Net
Thought Pieces
Avoiding a Biometric Dystopia | Help Net Security
FaceApp Adds Decades to your Age for Fun, but the Popular, Russian-Owned App Raises Privacy Concerns | The Washington Post
Privacy Tools
How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams Including Ransomware and More | PCWorld
IRpair & Phantom – Privacy Eyewear | Kickstarter [note: not an endorsement, just intriguing tech]
Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Despite WhatsApp and Telegram Encryption, Files can be Hacked when Saved on Phones, Warn Researchers | The Star Online
Maryland Says Confidential Data Must be Encrypted. For 1.4 Million Students, it Wasn’t | The Washington Post
Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc–Yet | Wired
This Week in Data Breaches
Google Details Privacy Policy After Dutch Audio Leak | FindBiometrics
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