Joseph Cox | Motherboard-VICE | Source URL Uber, which is pushing back against the requests for real-time location data of its JUMP scooters, was granted a provisional, month-long permit, while other companies received a full-year license. Over the last few months, The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), campaign groups, […]
Mass Private I | Source URL I hope you enjoyed America’s favorite pastime because by the end of this year, nearly every Major League Baseball (MLB) team will be using facial recognition. Last year, their were only nine MLB teams using CLEAR’s facial recognition to spy on fans. But all of that […]
Natalie Ram | Slate | Source URL We need to close the loopholes that allow law enforcement to take advantage of consumer genetics. This article is part of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University. On March 20, Future Tense will host an event in […]
Frank Konkel | NextGov | Source URL For millions of Americans, accessing their health records is an onerous task. A new rule could change that. A new rule proposed by the Trump administration could put the health care records of millions of Americans in their own pockets and onto their […]
TechCrunch | Source URL Newly released documents reveal Immigration and Customs Enforcement is tracking and targeting immigrants through a massive license plate reader database supplied with data from local police departments — in some cases violating sanctuary laws. The documents, obtained by a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the […]
John Hayward | Breitbart | Source URL The UK Guardian reported on Friday that China’s “social credit system,” a vast surveillance network and database system designed to punish Chinese for poor citizenship, has blocked travelers from buying 17.5 million airplane tickets and 5.5 million train tickets. The social credit system […]
Danny O’Brien | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Source URL Earlier this month, security researcher Victor Gevers found and disclosed an exposed database live-tracking the locations of about 2.6 million residents of Xinjiang, China, offering a window into what a digital surveillance state looks like in the 21st century. Xinjiang is […]
Tom McGregor | ChannelNewsAsia | Source URL And we ought to expect even more countries to use behavioural economics to nudge good citizen behaviour, says China commentator Tom McGregor. BEIJING: Western media reports have swirled about China’s social credit system, which is intended to nudge Chinese citizens to adopt good […]
George Joseph & Debbie Nathan | The Intercept | Source URL Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange […]
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL Between the ever-encroaching eye of Big Brother, the imminent events of pre-crime AI, the exposure of tech behemoth privacy contempt, and the inevitable ‘hack’ of any and everything online, it is perhaps understandable that your average joe is more than a little nervous […]
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL Update: New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood has launched an investigation into the hack of Starwood’s guest registration system announced Friday morning. And while one analyst who appeared on CNBC Friday morning said he didn’t expect the scandal to have a long-term […]
Mass Private I | Source URL A recent article in Smart Cities Dive revealed that the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (DOT) will be partnering with Remix, Lime and Spin to create a mobility data standard for ride shares. A ‘mobility data standard’ is just a fancy way of saying a real-time scooter and bicycle tracking standard. […]
