Privacy and the Pandemic
COVID-19 is Helping Turn Brazil into a Surveillance State [podcast w/ transcript] | MIT Technology Review
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
Schools are Buying up Surveillance Technology to Fight COVID-19 | The Next Web
The Dark Side of Campus Efforts to Stop Covid-19 | Washington Post
Online Learning’s Toll on Kid’s Privacy | Axios
Biometric Privacy
Police in Japan Reveal Use of Facial Biometrics in Criminal Probes | BiometricUpdate.com
Government Surveillance
How Constant Surveillance Puts Protesters at Risk [interview with Simone Browne] | Marketplace
Operation Legend is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities | The Intercept
Three Interactive Tools for Understanding Police Surveillance | EFF
China’s ‘Hybrid War’: Beijing’s Mass Surveillance of Australia and the World for Secrets and Scandal | Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Surveillance Capitalism
How Can We Fight Surveillance Capitalism? | Columbia Journalism Review
Encryption
EU Proposal Targets Digital Encryption | Financial Times
This Week in Data Breaches and Leaks
Veterans’ Records, Personal Information Exposed in Data Breach | ABC News
Minnesota’s Second-Largest Health Care Data Breach Hits Children’s, Allina | Minneapolis Star Tribune
Private Data Gone Public: Razer Leaks 100,000+ Gamers’ Personal Info | Ars Technica
Vulnerabilities and Exploits
BLURtooth Attack Overwrites Bluetooth Encryption Keys | TechXplore
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