Liz Truss: Another stooge for Big Tech
“We’re trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram. Britain is a nation
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Amazon reveals disturbing new Alexa feature
Amazon recently unveiled a creepy new feature which would allow for its Alexa advice to speak in the voice of deceased relatives.
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The secretive company selling mass surveillance to police
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies,
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TikTok browser can track all user keystrokes including credit card info and passwords
TikTok’s in-app browser contains code that allows the Chinese social network to view users’ keystrokes and thus potentially capture sensitive
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Pakistan: Imran Khan supporters could have bank accounts blocked through digital ID
Pakistan’s Interior Minister has warned supporters of the popular recently-ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan that they could have their digital
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UK announces contactless digital border plans
The Home Office aims to begin pilot testing in 2024 but fails to mention what biometric data it plans to
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EU Commission proposal seeks to end encryption
The European Commission is dressing up its latest attempt to end encryption under the guise of protection against child sexual
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How Emmanuel Macron helped Uber break into the French market
The French president, during his time as Minister of Economics, Industry and Digital Affairs, helped the company sidestep labor laws
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Kenyans must say no to biometrics for SIM card registry
“Avoid disconnection, update your SIM registration details.” This is the message that Kenyans have been seeing for months. Kenyan telcos have been threatening
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Facebook’s 2019 Libra White Paper: Digital ID a requirement for financial inclusion
A 2019 white paper by Facebook on its cryptocurrency, Libra, mentions its ambitions to make digital identity a prerequisite to
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