In a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Rep. Yvette Clark (D-NY), along with Sen. John Ossoff (D-GA), requested information on the deployment of face surveillance by the FBI and state and local law enforcement. The letter asks the FBI for a range of information, including: a breakdown of crimes for…
Texas AG Tried to Get a List of Trans Residents … For Some Reason
Nikki McCann Ramirez reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office sought data from the Texas Department of Public Safety in an effort to identify transgender individuals in the state, according to a report from The Washington Post. The department reportedly received a request in June from the attorney general’s office regarding information on Texans who had changed their gender on…
Legislators call for sanctions on firms complicit in mass DNA harvesting of Tibetans and Uyghurs
Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China writes: A group of legislators from 15 legislatures globally have called on their respective governments to investigate and suspend commercial activities with companies providing the PRC government with technologies to carry out biometric surveillance in the Uyghur Region, Tibet and elsewhere in the PRC, including the PRC state backed BGI Group…
Dutch police fined for filming passersby to check on social distancing
DutchNews.nl reports: The Dutch privacy watching Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) has fined the Rotterdam police force €50,000 for using cars equipped with cameras to monitor if people were keeping to the 1.5 metre social distancing rule, without first assessing the privacy implications. The cameras took detailed photographs of people on the streets and stored them, but…