Privacy During the Pandemic
- AI, employee privacy and COVID-19 | Business World
Students’ and Minors’ Privacy
Government Surveillance
- The future of American democracy hinges on ethical AI | Venture Beat
- The US Army is using a controversial facial-recognition technology that uses images from social media to identify people, documents show | Business Insider
- The Surveillance State That the U.S. Left Behind in Afghanistan | New Republic
- An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US | WIRED
Surveillance Capitalism
- A Technical Explainer on Apple’s Concerning Privacy Changes | New America
- Normalizing Surveillance | Lawfare
- FTC bars alleged ‘stalkerware’ company and its CEO from the surveillance business | CNBC
Biometric Privacy
- Ten Agencies Plan to Increase Use of Facial Recognition Technology | Homeland Security Today
- The government is going to use facial recognition more. That’s bad. | Popular Science
- GAO Finds Broad Support for Facial Recognition and Clearview AI Among Federal Agencies | FindBiometrics
- Army Wants to Install Facial Recognition, Video Analytics at Child Development Centers | Nextgov
- Police In At Least 24 Countries Have Used Clearview AI. Find Out Which Ones Here. | BuzzFeed News
- Victory! Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance | EFF
Laws, Regulations, and Legislation
- Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite | The Conversation
Encryption
- LockFile Ransomware Uses Never-Before Seen Encryption to Avoid Detection | ThreatPost
- Logitech’s Bolt USB dongle bolsters encryption for its new wireless mice and keyboards | The Verge
- U.S. National Security Agency Issues Update on Crypto-Resistant Encryption | Tom’s Hardware
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