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Man sues police after incorrect facial recognition match leads to wrongful arrest

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Nijeer Parks is suing the police after he was arrested and jailed in 2019 for ten days based on an incorrect facial recognition match. After a crime in Woodbridge, NJ,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backed project suffers data breach, 930,000 children affected

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Get Schooled, an educational non profit organization created as a partnership between The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Viacom with significant help from AT&T has suffered a data breach…

Categories: General Privacy News

As a result of Covid-19, virtual classrooms have become the norm for many: what are the privacy implications?

Updated on Dec 30, 2020 by Glyn Moody

It would be something of an understatement to say that Covid-19 has caused major changes to everyday life around the world. In the world of education, virtual classrooms, with students…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance

ACLU sues to find out how the FBI is breaking into encrypted devices

Updated on Apr 22, 2025 by Caleb Chen

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has the ability to break into encrypted phones and laptops, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing so that the public can…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The widening SolarWinds debacle shows why the reckless idea of backdooring encryption must be dropped forever

Updated on Aug 4, 2023 by Glyn Moody

The SolarWinds hack is the most serious breach of governmental and corporate security in years, perhaps the most serious breach ever - at least among those that we know about.…

Categories: Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance

Proposed FinCEN regulation would create financial surveillance net for cryptocurrency transactions

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 by Caleb Chen

On December 18th, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released a proposed regulation seeking to increase financial surveillance of cryptocurrency transactions. Note that the introduction date and…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

IMF suggests that your credit score could be based on your internet history

Posted on Dec 22, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The fast growing world of fintech may eventually develop to the point where your credit score is based on your internet history. A new blogpost on the International Monetary Fund…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Protect Our Civil Liberties Act would repeal Patriot Act, FISA Amendments Act, and ban encryption backdoors

Updated on Jan 28, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) are cosponsoring a bipartisan bill titled the Protect Our Civil Liberties Act (H.R. 8970). If passed, the Act would repeal the…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

ACLU sues Baltimore PD for lying about aerial mass surveillance program

Updated on Dec 16, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against the Baltimore Police Department (BDP) to end the use of spy planes for an invasive aerial surveillance campaign that has…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Should we worry about the possibility of police surveillance using autonomous drones with added AI ? Too late: it’s already here

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 by Glyn Moody

A couple of weeks ago, Privacy News Online wrote about France's controversial Global Security Law. One striking element was the authorization of drones for routine police surveillance. These particular "eyes…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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