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Big Tech pushes digital ID cards to track vaccinations, shopping, banking activity and more
Coercion is at the center of the global effort to manufacture consent for an all-encompassing digital identification system, in the form of SMART Health Cards and Digital Wallets.
7 steps you can take to defend your privacy from Big Tech spies
Ordinary people from across the world are trying to find new ways to ensure their privacy. Here are some tips from an expert.
Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results: Harvard-trained researcher
‘This is the year where we either wake up and and try to fight these companies or we will be turning over democracy to [them],’ Dr. Robert Epstein said.
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- Big Tech pushes digital ID cards to track vaccinations, shopping, banking activity and more
Coercion is at the center of the global effort to manufacture consent for an all-encompassing digital identification system, in the form of SMART Health Cards and Digital Wallets.
- 7 steps you can take to defend your privacy from Big Tech spies
Ordinary people from across the world are trying to find new ways to ensure their privacy. Here are some tips from an expert.
- EU looks to create ‘back doors’ to allow the member states to access people’s private messages
An alleged internal document made public titled ‘Draft Council Resolution on Encryption,’ shows that the EU draft resolution would set in motion the potential chipping away of so-called ‘end-to-end’ encryption on messaging apps.
- Google is spying on your private conversations, manipulating search results: Harvard-trained researcher
‘This is the year where we either wake up and and try to fight these companies or we will be turning over democracy to [them],’ Dr. Robert Epstein said.
- Human rights groups sue Ontario govt to stop police accessing patient COVID-19 data
‘Sharing COVID test results with police is not necessary, and in fact undermines an effective public health approach to this pandemic.’
- Govt official admits Alberta’s contact tracing app poses ‘security risks’ for Apple users
Users who download the app will have to leave their phones perpetually unlocked while the program is running.
- French contact tracing app lays groundwork for ‘techno-police,’ group warns
The app, called StopCovid, has raised a number of concerns regarding individual freedom and anonymity among both left-wing and right-wing citizens’ rights groups.
- Chinese officials propose app to grade citizens’ health, daily habits from 0 to 100
Individuals will be assigned a health score from 0 to 100, based on a number of factors including their medical records, physical assessments, as well as their drinking, smoking, sleeping, and exercise habits.
- Apple updates iPhone to work with COVID-19 ‘contact tracing’ apps
The new update does not begin initiating contact tracing on iPhones, but rather enables future contact-tracing apps to work when downloaded
- Big Tech is curtailing Americans’ freedoms in alarming ways, and it’s getting worse
How things have changed as the tech giants have morphed into near-totalitarian giants controlling far too much of our lives.
- Tech companies tout rise of ‘smart’ AI gatekeepers to scan faces, body temps for COVID-19
While ‘smart thermal control’ could easily identify people with fevers, it potentially raises personal privacy issues.
- Digital rights group publishes index of govt coronavirus phone surveillance programs
According to the index, there are currently 23 countries tracking their citizens through cell phones, with ‘alternative digital tracking measures’ being active in 22 countries.
- COVID-19 scare leads to more digital surveillance, talk of mandatory vaccine ‘tattoos’ for kids
Live updates on the coronavirus crisis and how it relates to pro-life issues, faith, and freedom.
- Privacy concerns raised over Google’s access to health records of millions of Americans
The tech giant is tapping into confidential information without notifying patients or doctors.
- Facebook won lower penalty in privacy scandal by threatening court battle: WaPo
The Federal Trade Commission decided to settle because Facebook has much more money than the U.S. government for litigation, according to one report.
- Facebook’s $5-billion fine for privacy scandals too low, Democrats complain
‘If the FTC is seen as traffic police handing out speeding tickets to companies profiting off breaking the law, then Facebook and other will continue to push the boundaries.’
- Trump’s Federal Trade Commission begins investigating Google, Facebook
The FTC is using its regulatory powers to begin a series of investigations against tech giants for selling users’ personal data to third parties.
- China cracks down on citizens, scans handheld devices for ‘illegal information’
The surveillance state is so pervasive many families fear openly talking with family members abroad.
- Big brother is listening: AT&T partners with govt to spy on citizens
A new report shows the extent to which the feds and the telecommunications company could profit from a data-mining arrangement.
