This creates a dangerous precedent. Other countries will follow suit. "Carriers" will be labelled and surveilled, losing agency over whether the government knows their location. More safety vs. privacy debates with false dichotomies. We are on that slippery slope now.

This privacy problem is of their own making. For years, Google used #flutrends as a justification for their retention policies for search arguing that the social benefit from 'big data' offsets the privacy invasions. (Which was later mostly disproved: wired.com/2015/10/can-le…

How Coronavirus Might Help Surveillance Boom dlvr.it/RSFXc4

"ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001..." nytimes.com/2020/03/23/tec… .onion: nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/2020/03/23/tec…

Per the article, Zoom uses your unique advertising ID. Solution: reset it after each iOS Zoom use. x.com/JuliaHlna/stat…

We are collecting information security and privacy resources for journalists - practical checklists/guides. Where would you start?

R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #Cupertino #AI #Energy R.NFT FreeEnergy=Freedom Vico! Telecom 5G LTE CBRS WISP Private Networks @colpclark Steve Wilson Rohit Prabhakar BW Neeraj Mathur hessiejones Alaric Aloor 🐕🏎⚽️🥃 Sarbjeet Johal Mia Randall Hunt ArrynFPS Anna Johnston Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Apple privacytools.io is also a good site to understand privacy better and what can be used from a user point. And I've found the folks at The Privacy Issue covering some good topics.

This might become default in other countries as well unless we start to resist. Buying an Amazon Ring means you might be compelled to participate in a surveillance network. Don't do it and don't let others do it, either.

'Instead of investing in what is required – investigation teams, lab testing and protective gear for staff – they are constantly busy with geolocation.' #COVID19 #privacy haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…

Face surveillance is progressing at an incredible pace, due in no small part to #COVID19. We take a look at current trends and where they may be going. Feat. expert commentary by nash of @eff and Jameson Spivack of Georgetown Privacy theprivacyissue.com/ai-and-biometr…

latest piece by Leah Zitter, Ph.D (High-Tech Writer/ Researcher) for The Privacy Issue "Will biometric technology... emerge as the champion of public safety and order? Or will this ubiquitous surveillance reveal a more sinister side... amplifying the injustices that already exist?" #privacy theprivacyissue.com/ai-and-biometr…

I've mapped some of the (possible) uses of surveillance against #Covid19, tried to identify the window of ideas currently acceptable to the European public, and suggested how it might respond to two factors: China & the principle of necessity. Read more: aboutintel.eu/covid-surveill…

As we face an unprecedented situation due to the #COVID19 pandemic, various actors have developed mobile apps. We actively tracks new Android apps that are published in response to COVID-19 and analyses them for security & privacy. Our technical reports: forensic.defensive-lab.agency/covid/

Read ‘Why you don’t need a VPN’ - the first post in our blog series ‘VPN Worst Practices’. It covers misleading marketing messages and common misconceptions on what VPNs are useful for. ivpn.net/blog/why-you-d…

If you want better privacy online, use a VPN, but don’t expect perfect protection - no matter what certain services promise. We explore this issue in the next post of the blog series about our industry: ivpn.net/blog/vpn-imper…

Our new blog post covers the why's and how's of data collection, hard-to-solve privacy issues and suggested next actions. "Just use a VPN" won't suffice for fixing the collective privacy problem. ivpn.net/blog/privacy-i…