(Activist Post) DuckDuckGo, the search engine which claims to offer “real privacy” because it doesn’t track searches or store users’ history, has come under fire after a security researcher discovered that the mobile DuckDuckGo browser app contains a third-party tracker from Microsoft.
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Google Adds To Settlements Over Illinois’ Biometric Privacy Law
(Kevin Bessler) Some Illinois residents could receive a check as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit against Google.
Facial Recognition Company Agrees to Permanently Ban Most Private Companies from Accessing Its Database
(B.N. Frank) Despite increasing worldwide opposition to facial recognition technology, significant risks associated with its use, and lawsuits (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), companies – including Clearview AI – continued to create it and promote its use until recently.
Privacy Advocates Celebrate “Big Win” Against Facial Recognition Giant
(Jessica Corbett) A historic settlement filed in court on Monday highlighted the power of Illinois’ strong privacy law and will result in new nationwide restrictions on a controversial technology company infamous for selling access to the largest known database of facial images.
Parents, Health Care, and Children’s Privacy
(Laura J. Wellington) How our nation handles healthcare when it comes to children covered by their parents’ health insurance is a joke. We pay for children’s healthcare and yet must ask permission from them in order to become privy to any test results or conversations that children have with their physicians and alternate healthcare professionals from age eighteen on. Let me say it again, “We pay for their healthcare!” Alternatively, we are required to sign a “parental proxy” to obtain test results for children younger than twelve. How is that right?
Computer Scientists Warn Smart Devices Spy On Us, IoT Violates Privacy, Most Consumer Internet Connected Devices AREN’T Secure
(B.N. Frank) Got wireless tech? Privacy and security experts have warned for years about issues and vulnerabilities associated with “smart” (aka wireless) devices (appliances, wearables, etc.) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology. They’ve even warned about expensive, hazardous, and altogether awful utility “Smart” Meters (electric, gas, and water). For those who still aren’t creeped out or freaked out, two computer scientists recently provided more scary warnings.
Proliferation of License Plate Cameras Raises Serious Privacy Concerns
(Kevin Bessler) Cops want more of the cameras to solve crimes while the ACLU warns the “risk of abuse by government is all too real.”
“Trickle down” FISA Proceedings Result in Further Revocation of Rights
(Janet Phelan) As the country swings further towards despotism, some interesting and telling cases are being filed in the courts, in an effort to confront and resolve instances of oppression.
Cambodia Implements Full Internet Surveillance Through Single National Data Gateway
(Arno Maierbrugger) What Cambodia is implementing today will spread like wildfire as a means to end free speech around the world. This has always been the plan of the cabal that hell-bent of creating global governance with complete control of everything you do, say, and think. Please keep your eyes on this issue as it will not be isolated to Cambodia
Another State Files Lawsuit Against Facebook’s Use of Facial Recognition without Obtaining Informed User Consent
(B.N. Frank) Even though Meta (formerly Facebook) stopped using facial recognition technology on its platform last year and promised to delete data on over one billion people, the company is still being sued by the Texas Attorney General.
The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
(Edward Snowden) By now you’ve probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth’s proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15—almost certainly in mid-September—with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets. We’re told that other countries will be spared, but not for long.
Apple Reveals Plans to Spy on Everyone’s iPhones – Here’s How to Check for Spy Software
(Richard Abelson) Apple Computer has unveiled plans to scan iPhones in the USA, AP reports, ostensibly under the guise of searching for for child pornography. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called Apple’s giving up privacy protections “a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.”
Democrats Plan to Monitor Your Private Phone Messages and “Correct” Vaccine “Misinformation” Sent to Family and Friends
(Mike Adams) Each day, we seem to reach a horrifying new low in the Orwellian nightmare now gripping modern society. In the latest insanity involving covid and Big Brother, Politico.com reports that the Democratic National Committee plans to “engage fact-checkers” and “work with SMS carriers” (cell phone text messaging) to “dispel misinformation about vaccines” that people send to each other in private texts.
Big Tech Facebook’s Rival ‘MeWe’ Gains 2.5 Million Members In One Week As Users Seek Fewer Privacy Restrictions
(Allan Miller) Facebook’s rival ‘MeWe’ gained 2.5 million new members in the past week as social media users increasingly flock to privacy-focused apps.
New Telegram Bot Violates Female Privacy Making Deep Fake Nudes From Regular Photos
(Aaron Kesel) A deep fake bot found on the Telegram messenger app has victimized seemingly hundreds of thousands of women by making normal photos into deep fake nudes.