Candy Woodall reports: State Senate Republicans will collect personal information on every Pennsylvania voter, including the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, as part of their controversial investigation of the 2020 general election. Subpoenas to get that information and more were approved Wednesday in a 7-4 party-line vote by the Senate Intergovernmental Operations…
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Courtesy of the indefatigable Joe Cadillic: European Parliament Study on Biometric Recognition and Behavioral Detection In Public Places: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2021/697131/IPOL_BRI(2021)697131_EN.pdf How to fix the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act: “Fix those dodgy definitions: emotion recognition and biometric categorization.” https://www.accessnow.org/how-to-fix-eu-artificial-intelligence-act/ ProtonMail Tries To Defend Itself Over Release Of Climate Activist’s IP Address: https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/ ProtonMail removes “we do not…
20 years later
Remembering that day and the souls lost. Remembering being down at Ground Zero days later with the Red Cross and the look on the faces of the wives of missing firefighters as they steeled themselves and hoped against hope. Remembering talking with the parents of my young patients as to how to talk to them…
EFF Activists To Lead Protest Demanding Apple Cancel iPhone Scanning Program and Keep Its Privacy Promises To Customers
Demonstrations Planned at Apple Stores in San Francisco, Boston, Portland, and Atlanta San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) activists will lead a protest on Monday, September 13, at 6 pm PT, demanding Apple drop its planned iPhone surveillance software program, which will endanger the privacy and security of its customers and open a backdoor to increased surveillance…