Cisco joins other big tech companies in calling for a federal privacy law. This is a blatant attempt to shutter what Louis Brandeis called the “laboratories of democracy” – states, such as California, that pioneer new policies to protect their citizens.
Read more...Illinois Supreme Court hands down unanimous decision that an individual needn’t prove actual injury nor adverse effect to recover under the state’s bellwether biometric privacy statute.
Read more...Soros just designated China’s AI and surveillance ambitions as the #1 enemy to “open societies”. Recall he’s already gone after Facebook and other US tech titans.
Read more...The FBI is openly setting out to make and break political leaders, undermining what we have left of a functioning democracy.
Read more...While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Read more...A romp through surveys on “package thieves,” as publicized by a recent viral piece of Youtubery.
Read more...What can be done to manage the risks of artificial intelligence?
Read more...Drones illustrate why lack of regulation isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...Advertising trade group calls for federal data privac regulationy, in an obvious attempt bet that Washington won’t toughen standards nearly as much as California has done and other states are also considering.
Read more...“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”
Read more...More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
Read more...A US criminal case targeting Huawei has thrown a big spanner into US-China relations.
Read more...New research shows that ‘master’ fingerprints can bypass smartphone fingerprint ID systems – thus striking another blow at the biometric ID fairy.
Read more...More evidence that Amazon is nasty.
Read more...The UK’s surveillance state poses legal problems for the legality of personal data transfers to it post Brexit, and the UK and EU are not close to having a solution.
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