Privacy and the Pandemic
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
- Your kids’ apps are spying on them | Washington Post
- How surveillance capitalism is spreading to schools | Progressive
- No COPPA outs: The FTC casts its eye on educational technology tools | JD Supra
Government Surveillance
- Records show ICE uses LexisNexis to check millions, far more than previously thought | TechCrunch
- Task force to assess use of facial recognition by Colorado law enforcement, government | Colorado Politics
- Marseille’s battle against the surveillance state | MIT Technology Review
Biometric Privacy
- Detroit airport’s experimental biometric flight info display will recognize passenger and tailor content for them | FindBiometrics
- Dozens arrested in Moscow via facial-recognition system on Russia Day | Radio Free Europe
Surveillance Capitalism
- Data privacy takes priority for FTC Chief as dems break deadlock | Bloomberg Law
- Senator Markey renews investigation into Amazon Ring’s surveillance practices and cooperation with police | Ed Markey
Slouching Towards Dystopia
- Police surveillance company seeks to acquire notorious Israeli NSO group | Wisconsin Examiner
Encryption and Online Anonymity
- How defending your privacy in the Metaverse may be more challenging than you think | Newsweek
- Researchers demonstrate they can steal data during homomorphic encryption | Security Boulevard
- Google quietly rolls out the Right to be Forgotten mechanism in the U.S. | Intellectual Freedom Blog
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
- Hello XD ransomware now drops a backdoor while encrypting | Bleeping Computer
- List of all K-12 schools know to be impacted by Illuminate breach of student data | THE Journal
- Kaiser Permanente data breach exposes health data of 69K people | Bleeping Computer
- A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys | Ars Technica
- Another 1.3M patients added to data breach tally of ransomware attack on Eye Care Leaders | SC Magazine