privacy
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7-Eleven’s Biometric Data Collection Interfered With Customer Privacy, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Rules
Australia’s Privacy Commissioner ruled 7-Eleven interfered with customer privacy by collecting biometric information without consent.
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China Just Passed a Major Data Privacy Law — With a Big, Government-Sized Loophole
When covid-19 cases started surging through China last year, we saw the country’s already authoritarian surveillance systems get kicked into overdrive. Officials rolled out everything from face-detecting drones and mandated movement-tracking apps to literally harvesting citizen’s blood in order to stem the flow of the virus. Going into 2o21, the country had clearly reached a…
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Facebook Killed Research Into Capitol Riot to Protect Itself — Not Users
When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $US5 ($7) billion for deceiving its users on privacy, it celebrated the fine as “record-breaking and history-making.” Two years and $US200 ($272) billion in revenue later, Facebook has found a way to turn lemons into lemonade, deceiving its users once again and using a seemingly powerless FTC…