Tag: privacy advocates
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Slashdot: UK Once Again Demands Backdoor To Apple’s Encrypted Cloud Storage
Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/1719219/uk-once-again-demands-backdoor-to-apples-encrypted-cloud-storage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK Once Again Demands Backdoor To Apple’s Encrypted Cloud Storage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The UK government’s recent order to Apple to create a backdoor for accessing encrypted cloud storage for British users raises significant privacy concerns and compliance challenges. This order comes amidst ongoing…
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Slashdot: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/0755253/swiss-government-looks-to-undercut-privacy-tech-stoking-fears-of-mass-surveillance?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Swiss Government Looks To Undercut Privacy Tech, Stoking Fears of Mass Surveillance Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The proposed Swiss government law requiring service providers to collect user identification and retain data poses severe threats to privacy and online anonymity. This has prompted companies like Proton…
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The Register: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sainsburys_lfr/ Source: The Register Title: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Feedly Summary: Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech…
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The Register: EU court’s dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates’ ire
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/eu_us_data_challenge/ Source: The Register Title: EU court’s dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates’ ire Feedly Summary: Now you’ve gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he’s working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework…
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The Register: Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/16/uk_to_use_ai_to/ Source: The Register Title: Minority Report: Now with more spreadsheets and guesswork Feedly Summary: Precogs replaced by profiling and postcode data… and ‘AI’. What could wrong? Lots, say pirvacy campaigners The UK government has unveiled a scheme to use AI to “help police catch criminals before they strike."… AI Summary and Description:…
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Slashdot: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation
Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1612259/proton-begins-shifting-infrastructure-outside-of-switzerland-ahead-of-surveillance-legislation?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Proton is proactively relocating its infrastructure outside Switzerland in response to forthcoming surveillance legislation that poses threats to user privacy and data retention requirements. The move begins with the AI…
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The Register: Frozen supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/iceland_facial_recognition/ Source: The Register Title: Frozen supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech Feedly Summary: Privacy campaigner brands Iceland’s use of ‘Orwellian’ camera tech ‘chilling,’ CEO responds: ‘It’ll cut violent crime’ Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland’s decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores “chilling" – the UK supermarket…
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Slashdot: Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/11/1825215/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights a troubling partnership between major U.S. airlines and a data broker that has sold sensitive flight information to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This raises…