digital rights
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Europe Wants to Ban Facial Recognition — Take Note, America
The European Parliament has called for EU lawmakers to institute a ban on law enforcement’s use of facial recognition, as well as other surveillance tools commonly used in the course of algorithm-driven predictive policing.
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Corporate America Is Building Its Own Surveillance State. Will the FTC Stop It?
Americans are used to hearing about what a great country they live in — how lucky they are to have been born in, or to have immigrated to, the United States. “American exceptionalism” — a phrase, funnily enough, coined by Joseph Stalin — is an idea that, on the whole, is still embedded in the…
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The Pandemic Was An Excuse To Trample Your Digital Rights
A once-in-a-century pandemic has given cover for governments, businesses and organisations to use technology in new or expanded ways to their benefit. As a result, 2020 was a year that saw Australians’ digital rights tested and encroached on in unprecedented ways. Australian advocacy group Digital Rights Watch has released its State Of Digital Rights report…
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US Justice Department Demands Names Of Thousands Who Liked Anti-Trump Facebook Page
The US Justice Department has obtained three warrants to search the Facebook accounts of people associated with protests of Donald Trump’s inauguration and an anti-Trump Facebook page they used to organise the demonstrations. In addition to private lists of people who planned to attend Facebook events created by the page, the searches would include the…