A federal appeals court ruled unanimously in favor of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, stating that the mandatory remote identification of civilian drones does not violate the Constitution and that “free-for-all” drone usage is a threat to public safety. The remote ID rules require drones to provide location and identification information during flight,…
Remote ID Law for Civilian Drones Does Not Violate the Fourth Amendment: DC Circuit Court
August 2, 2022
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Reclaim Control of Your Digital Life
July 21, 2022
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Commentary I was visiting with a friend who told me an all-too-familiar story. Her teenage niece adores TikTok. Too much. She spends many hours a day on it. It’s become her secret world, much more influential over her outlook on life than her parents, church, or physical community. It shapes her values and opinions. She…
Hacker Claims to Have Data on 1 Billion Chinese Citizens From Police Files
A trove of data of more than one billion Chinese residents, allegedly hacked from the Shanghai police, has been listed for sale on the dark web. If verified, it could amount to the biggest data leak in the country’s history. “In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked,” read a post dated June 30…
E-Payment Industry Growing in China, Despite Risks
July 3, 2022
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News Analysis The electronic payment (e-payment) industry and RMB digital business have been rapidly pushing forward over the past year in China, highlighting the way money will be more easily controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Compared to other payment methods such as cash, bills, or bank cards, e-payments are often more convenient,…
Microsoft Retiring Emotion-Reading Technology, Limiting Access to Facial Recognition Amid Concerns Over Privacy
June 22, 2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would stop selling technology that predicts a person’s emotional state and gender amid concerns over its privacy and a lack of consensus on a definition of “emotions.” Sarah Bird, principal group product manager at Microsoft’s Azure AI unit, announced the decision—part of Microsoft’s efforts to ensure its AI technology is used…
The Spies Who Loathe Us
June 22, 2022
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News Analysis In the early days of Social Media—it must have been around the year 2005—a friend wrote that she would stay off completely and forever. She valued her privacy. She saw absolutely no gain to posting her whereabouts and goings on for the world to see. The state can too easily take that information…
Tim Hortons App Collected Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data: Privacy Watchdogs
The Tim Hortons mobile ordering app violated the law by collecting vast amounts of location information from customers, an investigation by federal and provincial privacy watchdogs has found. In a report released Wednesday, privacy commissioners said people who downloaded the Tim Hortons app had their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes, even when the…
Travel-Related Bill S-7 the Latest Government Effort to Erode Personal Liberties
The 2022 Canadian parliamentary session has been marked by a strong trend toward authoritarian policy measures. From the most extreme example with the invocation of the Emergencies Act, to bills C-11 and C-18 seeking to control the media and internet, to the freezing of handgun sales in Canada, the federal government is heavily focused on…
Canada’s Bill S-7 Fails to Protect Travellers’ Personal Privacy: Civil Rights Group
A new Senate bill that would allow Canadian border agents to examine contents stored on travellers’ personal digital devices if an officer has “reasonable general concern” sets a low standard that fails to protect individual privacy, a civil rights group says. Bill S-7, the Liberal government’s proposed legislation that seeks to amend the Customs Act and…
The Digital Panopticon
Commentary Vice has broken the story that during the previous two years, as the headline announced, “The CDC tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders.” According to documents obtained by Motherboard, the CDC used phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for applications beyond covid: “The…
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