Privacy, censorship, & security in the news.
Here are a collection of links to articles I have found about privacy, censorship, and securty that are worth a read! I can't possibly write articles covering all the news on these topics, but I can share some good articles from other websites with you here instead. Note that I occasionally find a decent article from a source I can't stand. In this case, I will run the link through "archive.today" so I don't send the site in question any traffic.
World Economic Forum pushes new form of surveillance - turning your heartbeat into a digital ID
August 19, 2021
"A proposed idea is to use the invasive technology to track shoppers."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
T-Mobile Confirms Data Breach Impacts Millions of Customers | SecurityWeek.Com
August 18, 2021
"T-Mobile has confirmed that hackers have accessed the personal information of millions of current and former customers."
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Twitter launches new process for reporting COVID misinformation’
August 17, 2021
"The White House had pressured platforms to do more"
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DHS considers using January 6 to justify mass social media surveillance of citizens
August 17, 2021
"A further civil rights challenge, outsourced to private companies."
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Singapore issues new "fake news" censorship order against Facebook
August 16, 2021
"Facebook is yet to respond but has responded to past orders."
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The Delta Variant and the Censorship of Inconvenient Information - Areo
August 16, 2021
"Did you know that beheading videos, pornography and mask effectiveness charts from journal articles are lumped into the same category of sensitive information by Twitter? Neither did I. For the…View Post"
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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach – Krebs on Security
August 16, 2021
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Alabama and Louisiana team up on Big Tech censorship reporting system
August 15, 2021
"A new approach."
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Will $500M for Smart Cities in Historic US Senate Spending Bill Fund Biometric Surveillance? - Activist Post
August 15, 2021
"The legislation now moves to the House of Representatives, where it is unlikely that the surveillance provision will be stripped."
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LinkedIn Censors Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff ⋆ Brownstone Institute
August 13, 2021
"Receiving less attention has been the rise of censorship on the Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, the social network for professionals that has thus far seemed to be a less active participant in the Covid information wars. Its largely passive approach is starting to change. "
Read full article onBrownstone Institute