Fikayo Walter-Johnson and Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU write: Last year, Sen. Ron Wyden raised alarms about one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent memory. Sen. Wyden revealed that the Arizona attorney general’s office, in collaboration with the Phoenix Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, had engaged in the…
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EU Trying to Bring in ‘Mass Surveillance’ with Proposed Chat Control Law – MEP
So okay, this is definitely NOT okay from this blogger’s perspective. Breitbart reports: A senior MEP within the European Parliament has accused the EU of trying to bring in “mass surveillance” with a new law controlling private online chats. Dr Nicolaus Fest MEP, the leader of the populist Alternative für Deutschland party within the European Parliament,…
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Jennifer Gollan of ProPublica reports: Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which may allow law enforcement to prosecute those who use the medications to end their pregnancies, a ProPublica analysis has found. Using a tool created by the Markup, a nonprofit tech-journalism newsroom, ProPublica ran checks on…
Does the European Parliament use Facial Recognition Technology?
Earlier this week, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) wrote: ICCL has obtained 32 documents from the European Parliament about its use of CCTV cameras. We have learned that the European Parliament, which opposes facial recognition technology (FRT), had itself tendered for facial recognition capable cameras in 2015. The European Parliament’s tender also required…