Privacy During the Pandemic
Mass Surveillance During the Pandemic: Today’s Fix, Tomorrow’s Trouble | Forbes
Protecting Health Data Privacy in the Return to Work | Security Boulevard
These Chinese Firms were Blacklisted for Uighur Oppression. Now they want to Sell COVID-19 Surveillance Tools to the West | Business Insider
Google and Apple’s Rules for Virus Tracking Apps Sow Division Among States | Politico
Stop Pitting Privacy Against Public Health and Start Innovating to Address Both | Forbes
Israeli Security Head Calls for Halt in Virus Phone Tracking | Minneapolis Star Tribune
Helping Privacy Survive COVID-19: Inspirational Tidbits from William Marden, NYPL Director of Privacy and Compliance | Intellectual Freedom Blog
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
Schools Turn to Surveillance Tech to Prevent COVID-19 Spread | ArsTechnica
Government Surveillance
Of course technology perpetuates racism. It was designed that way. MIT Technology Review
The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them. | ProPublica
Protest Responses Raise Domestic Surveillance Concerns | Axios
Democrats Seek Answers on High-Tech Surveillance of Protesters by U.S. Agencies | Roll Call
Drone Surveillance of Protests Comes Under Fire | The Wall Street Journal
Few Answers on Who Asked Feds to Circle a Predator Surveillance Drone over Minneapolis Protests | Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Protests Prove the Need to Regulate Surveillance Tech | Wired
Biometric Privacy
The case for banning facial recognition | New York Times
Will Facial Recognition and Digital Surveillance End Anonymous Protest? | Singularity Hub
IBM Kills Facial Recognition but Surveillance Continues | Forbes
The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police | MIT Technology Review
Biometrics Experts Call for Creation of FDA-Style Government Body to Regulate Facial Recognition | BiometricUpdate.com
Encryption
The Cybersecurity 202: Two New Developments Challenge Justice Department Arguments on Encryption | The Washington Post
IBM Releases Open Source Encryption Toolkit | Decipher
Lifesize End-to-End Encryption Applies to All | AV Magazine
Privacy Tools and Techniques
How Protesters are Turning the Tables on Police Surveillance | Vox
Signal Upgrades Encrypted Messenger with Face-Blurring to Block Biometrics | BiometricUpdate.com
How to get the Most out of Signal and Encrypted Chat | Wired
Messaging App Signal is Working on Encrypted Group Video Calls | PC Magazine
How to Encrypt Files and Documents | Blokt
Dropbox Introduces Password Manager with Zero-Knowledge Encryption | Mac Observer
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Fitness Depot Hit by Data Breach after ISP Fails to ‘Activate the Antivirus’ | Bleeping Computer
US Subsidiary of ST Engineering Aerospace Suffers Massive Data Breach | Channel News Asia
San Francisco Pension Data Breach may have Exposed Bank Info | Government Technology
Nintendo Confirms Additional 140,000 Accounts Compromised in April Data Breach | Security Boulevard
IT Services Giant Conduent Suffers Ransomware Attack, Data Breach | Computer Business Review
Babylon Health Admits ‘Software Error’ Led to Patient Data Breach [UK] | TechCrunch