Government Surveillance
Spy Agency [NSA] Ducks Questions about ‘Back Doors’ in Tech Products | Reuters
Senators Urge Investigation after CBP Admits to Warantless Cell Phone Surveillance | Nextgov
Over 2,000 Law Enforcement Agencies have iPhone Encryption-Breaking Tools | Apple Insider
EPIC Files Lawsuit to Force Release of ICE Facial Recognition Documents | BiometricUpdate.com
Biometric Privacy
Mobile Biometrics Issues Investigated by AMBER Researchers | BiometricUpdate.com
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police | The New York Times
Cadillac Fairview Collected 5 Million Shoppers’ Images [in Canada] | Cision
Laws, Regulations, and Legislations
Implications of New York’s SHIELD Act on Biometric Privacy | BiometricUpdate.com
Government Facial Recognition Policies Updated in Canada, Sweden and China | BiometricUpdate.com
Encryption
Zoom Launches End-to-End Encryption for Free Meetings–with a Catch | TechCrunch
Slouching Towards Dystopia
Surveillance Startup [Verkada] Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers | Vice
Finance Workers are Used to Surveillance. Just not like This. | Bloomberg
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Massive Nitro Data Breach Impacts Microsoft, Google, Apple, More | Bleeping Computer
[Russian] COVID-19 Vaccine-Maker hit with Cyberattack, Data Breach | ThreatPost
Pfizer Suffers Huge Data Breach on Unsecured Cloud Storage | Security Boulevard
Google’s Law Firm Hit by Data Breach, Employee Details Leaked | TechRadar
Patients in Finland Blackmailed after Therapy Records were Stolen by Hackers | CNN
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