China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities
The technology improves on existing software, which simply collects data but leaves it to people to organize.
April 2022
France says ‘defence secrecy’ in police surveillance operations is constitutional
Constitutional court finds that invoking ‘defence secrecy’ to withhold information about the state hacking of EncroChat cryptophones is constitutional.
Apple iOS privacy clampdown ‘did little’ to reduce tracking
Double-standard rules have strengthened iGiant’s gatekeeper power.
Google Bans Dozens of Apps Containing Illicit Data-Harvesting Software
Everything from the weather to prayer apps were found to contain hidden code that could harvest a user’s location, email address, phone number and more.
Google is testing its new Privacy Sandbox settings in Chrome
Google is starting “origin trials” for its Chrome Privacy Sandbox, its new system for serving targeted ads without using cookies.