Privacy and the Pandemic
Report Tracks how Governments Fighting COVID are Increasing Surveillance | Voice of America
The Pandemic’s Digital Shadow: Increased Surveillance | The Hill
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
Recent K-12 Data Breaches Show that Students are Vulnerable to Harm | U.S. Government Accountability Office
UM [University of Miami] Used Surveillance to Track Student Protesters | Miami New Times
Government Surveillance
Government Privacy Watchdog Asked to Investigate Surveillance of Black Lives Matter | Gizmodo
Border Patrol Spent $2 Million on Google Maps for a Massive Surveillance Tool | Forbes
San Francisco Supervisors Must Rein in SFPD’s Abuse of Surveillance Cameras | EFF
Biometric Privacy
Human Rights Watch Calls for Suspension of Buenos Aires Biometric Surveillance System | FindBiometrics
Canadian Law Clinic Asks for Moratorium on Use of Face Biometrics at the Border | FindBiometrics
Chinese Citizens Raise Concerns about Leaks of Biometric Data | FindBiometrics
Encyrption
Zoom Rolls out End-to-End Encryption after Setbacks | ThreatPost
A Transnational Coalition of Intelligence Agencies Seeks to Abolish End-to-End Encryption | Business Insider
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Barnes & Noble Data Breach Exposes Customers’ Email Addresses, Transaction History | USA Today
Personal and Medical Information of Children and Adults Stolen in DHS Data Breach | Security Boulevard
Data Breach may have Affected as Many as 30,000 Colorado State Employees | CBS Denver
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