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China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Equipment

Sui-Lee Wee

04 July 2020

The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males, giving the authorities a powerful new tool for their emerging high-tech surveillance state.

Smart-toilets: How to help monitor your health

SecNews

03 July 2020

The ones are coming bathrooms «smart-toilets», Which will analyze the composition of urine and feces, and will help control of health your!

PWC under fire for tech that keeps home-working staff under surveillance

Louisa Clarence-Smith

02 July 2020

PWC is under fire for developing a facial recognition tool for City firms to monitor home-working staff when they are away from their computer screens.

OmniBallot, Another Flawed Attempt At Online Voting Hackaday

Maya Posch

30 June 2020

Although online voting in elections has been a contentious topic for decades already, it is during the current pandemic that it has seen significant more attention. Along with mail-based voting, it can be a crucial tool in keeping the world’s democratic nations running smoothly. This is where the OmniBallot software, produced by Democracy Live, comes into play, and its unfortunate unsuitability...

Germany recognizes Bitcoin as a legal financial instrument

decrypt.co

28 June 2020

German financial watchdog provides clarity on the legal status of cryptocurrencies.

European concerns over data privacy decline- Report

moderndiplomacy.eu

28 June 2020

A new report by IE University’s Center for the Governance of Change (CGC) highlights profound shifts in European sentiments to technological change, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. To discuss the findings, a live webinar was held on June 1st which included a panel of experts and research contributors.

A Covid-19 detection tool appears on smartphones

Absenta Mia

27 June 2020

A new Covid-19 detection tool has appeared in the device settings Android and iOS as part of an update of their operating systems.

This College Banned Students From Even Discussing Facial Recognition

Edward Ongweso Jr

26 June 2020

After the ACLU said a community college in Michigan was violating its students’ First Amendment rights, the school partially relented.

Former UK prime minister calls for coronavirus digital IDs to prove ‘disease status’

Paul Smeaton

24 June 2020

'Unless you're able to record some of this data in a way that people can use it's going to be difficult to go back to anything like a near normal in things like transport,' said Tony Blair.

CIA cyber weapons stolen in historic breach due to 'woefully lax security', internal report says

Zachary Cohen and Alex Marquardt, CNN

23 June 2020

Washington (CNN)The largest theft of data in CIA history happened because a specialized unit within the agency was so focused on building cyber weapons that an employee took advantage of "woefully lax" security and gave secret hacking tools to WikiLeaks, according to an internal report released on Tuesday.

Tony Blair calls for global digital IDs to drive recovery from coronavirus shutdown

Damien McElroy

22 June 2020

Tony Blair has called for governments around the world to give each resident a digital identity to enable the resumption of normal activity and ensure retraining for citizens to promote economic recovery.

Pentagon adopts new ethical principles for using AI in war

fortune.com

21 June 2020

The Pentagon is adopting new ethical principles as it prepares to accelerate its use of artificial intelligence technology on the battlefield.

Big Tech hits pause button on facial recognition technology

Michael Cook, editor of BioEdge

21 June 2020

Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon have all hit a “stop” or “pause” button on their facial recognition technology because of fears that it could prejudice people of colour.

Amazon Buckles to Pressure Over Police Use of Facial Recognition

Lisa Lacy

20 June 2020

Civil rights groups have long for a moratorium on Rekognition

Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid & The "Better than cash Alliance" - The Corbett Report

Mr Marxismo

19 June 2020

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/gates The takeover of public health that we have documented in How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet that we have documented in Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World was not, at base, about money.

The Protests Prove the Need to Regulate Surveillance Tech

Justin Sherman

18 June 2020

US policymakers too often argue that regulation is about geopolitical competition. But algorithms have perpetuated harm and inequality at home.

Google Loses Its Appeal On 50 Million Euro GDPR Fine

Allison Schiff

15 June 2020

Remember that 50 million euro fine that Google got slapped with in France for failing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation last year?

Some states have embraced online voting. It's a huge risk.

Politico

14 June 2020

People’s phones, tablets and computers are vulnerable to hackers. Securing the internet could take a decade or more. But some states are plowing ahead anyway.

Exclusive: Google users in UK to lose EU data protection - sources

reuters.com

13 June 2020

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said.

EU Commission Embraces Remote Facial Recognition?

liberties.eu

11 June 2020

The latest version of the European Commission's white paper on AI does not specify a temporary ban on remote facial recognition.

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