U.S. News
The Supreme Court Marshal Asks States To Crack Down On Protesters:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/politics/supreme-court-justices-homes-maryland/index.html
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-virginia-respond-supreme-court-letter
'Unconscionable': House Committee Adds $37 Billion to Biden's $813 Billion Military Budget
U.S. Vows to Hunt Russian War Criminals — but Gives a Pass to Its Own:
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/25/russia-war-crimes-us-accountability/
Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion:
Pfizer sponsored Miami yacht party for failed Colombian presidential contender:
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/19/pfizer-miami-yacht-colombia-presidential-rodolfo-hernandez/
Biden Admin agrees to pay Pfizer 56% more for their COVID shots:
Afghan held at Guantanamo Bay freed after 15 years without trial:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/24/afghan-prisoner-at-guantanamo-bay-released-after-15-years
Immigration Judges Union Criticizes Biden Firing Trump Appointees
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/immigration-judges-union-sounds-alarm-ousting-trump-era-picks
Coinbase Provides “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE:
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/
Meet the GEO Group's SmartLINK, App Tracking Nearly a Quarter Million Immigrants:
https://www.geogroup.com/electronic_monitoring
https://bi.com/mobile-monitoring/
CBP and Grace Farms Foundation host federal law enforcement summit:
GAO Report on Facial Recognition: Federal Agencies’ Use and Related Privacy Protections
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-106100
https://www.gao.gov/assets/730/721422.pdf
Congress is Allegedly Surprised to Learn Facial Recognition Surveillance Is Rampant:
https://gizmodo.com/facial-recognition-biometric-surveillance-congress-1849126487
House committee examines privacy standards for facial recognition:
House Science Subcommittee Chairman Bill Foster: Digital Passport Only Way to Deter Crypto Use for Ransomware Attacks
Virginia's new law lets police use facial recognition if they have "reasonable suspicion"
SB 741: Authorizes local law-enforcement agencies, campus police departments and State Police to use facial recognition technology for certain authorized uses as defined in the bill.
Should facial recognition be used in Massachusetts? New report says to limit, document use:
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/regional/massachusetts/2022/06/29/facial-recognition-use-commission-suggests-documenting-limiting-massachusetts-aclu-digital-fourth/9660776002/
NY officials are ignoring the law banning facial recognition in schools and are putting students in danger:
https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/ny-ignoring-ban-facial-recognition-schools
House Democrats resurrect bill to ban police body cams equipped with facial recognition:
https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=5619
https://beyer.house.gov/uploadedfiles/frt_ban_on_body_cams_act_117.pdf
Mastercard wants to be a digital ID provider:
https://reclaimthenet.org/payments-company-mastercard-wants-to-be-a-digital-id-provider/
Trinsic ID Raises $8.5M to expand digital ID programs:
Supreme Court Refuses to Limit Warrantless Surveillance:
Homeland Security Series: A special series exploring two decades of American life under the DHS
https://www.theverge.com/c/23055922/homeland-security-series
DHS and Israeli Partners Announce Collaboration on Cybersecurity:
Netflix Documentary Shows How An IRS Scammer Uncovered Secret Police Spy Technology (Stingray):
https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/where-daniel-rigmaiden-is-now-web-of-make-believe
The NYU's Policing Project Accused of Partnering with Companies that Profit off Police Violence and Surveillance:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/nyu-policing-project-funding/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qHWVP2gPqirTFQDXhd4schKiJU9EAYiKsQqOkmC1Vns/edit
Lafayette Police Roll Out Integrated (FUSUS) Surveillance Network:
The Disturbing Link Between Police Body Cams, Public Surveillance And Fusion Centers (FUSUS):
Lima Police Department claims they need invasive public surveillance system to detect potential crimes:
"The custom-built device, created by Infinite Protection, has cameras, sound detection, facial recognition software, license plate recognition and smoke and fire detection to help the department."
https://www.limaohio.com/news/514508/lima-police-try-crime-detector-device
https://infiniteprotectionltd.com/
2700 Police and Fire Departments Use Ring’s Neighbors App for Investigations:
https://www.govtech.com/biz/data/neighbors-app-usage-grows-among-police-fire-departments
Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge:
"In documents filed Thursday in Denver District Court, lawyers for the 17-year-old argue that the police violated the Constitution when they got a judge to order Google to check its vast database of internet searches for users who typed in the address of a home before it was set ablaze on Aug. 5, 2020."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-google-reverse-keyword-searches-rcna35749
Coral Gables police to use drones equipped with speakers to respond to calls:
Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak said the drones will feature spotlights, infrared cameras and speakers to assist officers heading to the scene and potentially answer important questions. “This will be call-specific,” he said. “911 calls, suspicious person calls, where we can launch the drone and then have the officers respond at the same time” Hudak said.
Zipline drones to deliver a variety of medical products to North Carolina homes:
Police Violence
Florida judge faces suspension without pay after telling defendant 'I asked you a f***ing question a**hole' and unlawfully caging another for more than a year
DOJ fails to report on making federal websites accessible to disabled people:
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1108737968/federal-websites-accessible-disabled
New Institute for Justice Website Helps People Navigate the Maze of Qualified Immunity:
Constitutional GPA: Is Your Government Preventing Accountability?
https://ij.org/report/constitutional-gpa/
If police accountability is the question, qualified immunity is not the answer:
(Written by: Paul Berch and Tony Lekas are members of the NH House of Representatives. Keith Neely and Patrick Jaicomo are attorneys at the non-profit Institute for Justice, working on its Project on Immunity and Accountability.)
https://www.concordmonitor.com/My-Turn-Immunity-and-accountability-46980167
https://ij.org/issues/project-on-immunity-and-accountability/
DOJ to Investigate NYPD's Sex Crimes Unit About the way they Treat Crime Victims:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nypd-sex-crimes-unit-doj-law-and-order-svu_n_62be1f71e4b00a9334e5f83b
NYC Prosecutors Resigning in Droves Due to Aggressive Reforms Like Not Prosecuting for Misdemeanors:
"Some were spurred to leave, sources said, by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime approach which he outlined in a “Day One” memo directing ADAs to not seek prison sentences for many criminals and to downgrade some felonies to misdemeanors."
https://nypost.com/2022/06/25/more-nyc-prosecutors-quit-because-of-reform-laws/
Cops Are Harassing Mom Who Pulled Kids From Uvalde School Shooting:
Texas Officials to Spend $50M on School Police Shields:
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/28/uvalde-texas-funding-response-schools-mental-health/
California cops stand by as "Proud Boys" try to force their way into drag show:
Cops Nationwide Become Violent Against People Protesting for Abortion Rights:
https://gizmodo.com/cops-violence-abortion-roe-wade-photos-protest-police-n-1849111927
https://jezebel.com/police-spent-the-weekend-brutalizing-abortion-rights-pr-1849112578
LAPD Under Scrutiny For Treatment Of Press And Demonstrators At Abortion Rights Rallies:
Jodie Sweetin Vows to ‘Continue Fighting’ After Cops Shoved Her to the Ground at Abortion Rights Protest:
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Jodie-Sweetin-Vows-to-Continue-Fighting-17268026.php
Judge rejects request by Boston cops to dismiss lawsuit over pepper spraying, punching and hitting BLM protesters with police bikes:
A federal judge ruled today that four people at a George Floyd vigil on the Common on May 31, 2020 can try to convince a jury that Boston Police officers violated their First Amendment rights by attacking them with pepper spray, fists and a bicycle afterwards and that the city created a culture where such a thing could happen.
https://www.universalhub.com/2022/judge-rejects-request-boston-cops-dismiss-first
Must See Pics. in Complaint:
https://www.universalhub.com/files/may31-complaint-amended.pdf
Eight BLM Protesters who suffered open head wounds, solitary confinement and denied access to meds cannot sue police:
2013 Occupy Wall St., protester who suffered a brain injury from NYPD cops finally awarded $430K:
Victims’ Rights Laws Abused Again To Hide Identities Of Officers Who Killed Someone in Ten States:
Vermont sheriff arrested on sexual assault refuses to resign says 'I'm still the sheriff’
Florida deputy fired: He made up stories to cover up that he surfed net during work
Over 100 Georgia sheriffs condemn Stacey Abrams over 'defund the police' foundation ties:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/100-georgia-sheriffs-condemn-stacey-abrams-defund-police-foundation-ties
https://coosavalleynews.com/2022/06/floyd-county-sheriff-dave-roberson-joins-others-in-condeming-stacey-abrams/
Miami police chief accused of corruption:
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-police-chief-manuel-morales-accused-corruption/
7 Louisville Metro Police cases the FBI is investigating for misconduct:
Philadelphia to spend nearly one billion on police:
Kentucky Hires Retiring Military as Police Officers:
MA judge throws out 2 questions on police officer licensing questionnaire:
The new state licensing commission for police officers for now can’t ask cops its planned questions about whether they’ve posted anything “that you believe could be perceived as biased” or if they’ve belonged to any organization that has “unlawfully discriminated” against anyone based on race, gender or other factors, a judge has ruled while allowing the rest of the questionnaire.
MA police Sgt. sentenced after admitting to stealing nearly $50,000 in union funds for vacations, Match.com
Sex abuse trial continues against babysitter, former Newport News cop who abused her 10 years ago while on duty:
Iowa cop sentenced to probation over sexual abuse:
16 years after corruption scandal, a Chicago cop is finally facing discipline:
Cops Shot Fleeing Black Motorist 90 Times For an Equipment Violation:
“We don’t treat animals that way,” attorney Paige White continued. “Time and again, what we see across this country are white people who are able to commit crimes, to slaughter people and who live to tell the tale. Jayland Walker wasn’t able to do that.”
Police Say Black Driver Was Unarmed When Cops Killed Him:
Minneapolis cop who killed 911 caller is released from prison:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-police-officer-killed-911-caller-released-prison
Video shows NC cop shoot unarmed suspect, call in report, then fire again, killing him:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article262939718.html
Video shows cops arresting innocent Black man, 25, on warrant for 49-yr. old white man
https://news.yahoo.com/first-time-video-shown-cops-205812016.html
‘I’m pretty sure it’s going to be you,’ Videos show police arresting Black man mistaken for white man with same name
Police departments agree to pay $90K for arresting innocent Black man on white felon’s warrant
"Attorney E. Brent Bryson explained the $90,000 settlement is close to the max. “In Nevada, for negligence, when you sue a governmental entity, there is a statutory cap of $100,000,” Bryson revealed."
Black man paralyzed after abrupt stop in police van:
Why Wouldn’t Any Cop Believe Randy Cox?
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2022/06/30/why-wouldnt-any-cop-believe-randy-cox/
Colorado Supreme Court: Cops Cannot Stop And Search Vehicles Based On Hunches That Rental Cars With Out of State Plates Are Transporting Drugs
https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2022/22SA58.pdf
Appeals Court: New York Police Can Stop & Frisk People In Area Of ShotSpotter Alerts:
Appeals Court: Texas Rangers who imprisoned an innocent man accused of shooting people at a party cannot be sued
New Jersey cop admits to searching database for OnlyFans woman:
Arresting Unhoused People Doesn’t Fix Homelessness. Police Do It Anyway:
https://truthout.org/articles/arresting-unhoused-people-doesnt-fix-homelessness-police-do-it-anyway/
The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’
"These federal and state statutes should be bolstered by law enforcement agencies’ internal policies mandating the same obligation. Introducing criminal liability for inaction could prod officers to stop their peers’ serious misconduct and would promote accountability for those officers who remain bystanders."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4119580
NIST’s expanded searchable database will make it easier for police find incriminating data in electronic media:
Crushed dried beans mistaken for dope cost four people their freedom:
https://www.hardknoxwire.com/new-beans-mistaken-for-dope-cost-four-people-their-freedom/
Louisiana Forced to Limit Solitary Confinement for Youth:
https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-limits-solitary-confinement-for-youth
Private Prisons Are a Socially Responsible Investment, According to Bizarre Wall Street Measures:
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/27/esg-funds-corporate-responsibility-dei/
Privacy
33 Problems With Media in One Chart:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/problems-with-media/
The Great Reset in Action: Ending Freedom of the Press, Speech, and Expression
https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-action-ending-freedom-press-speech-and-expression
Press Corps Blasts "Continued Efforts To Limit Access To The President" By The White House:
https://money.yahoo.com/white-house-reporters-urge-press-020302037.html
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/KARINEFINALEDITEDA.docx-2.pdf
FBI kept tabs on comedians Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, thought they were receiving material from "communistic" sources:
US-UK Privacy Tech Initiative Focuses on Halting Digital Financial Crimes:
OpenSecrets releases new state lobbying disclosure scorecard:
https://infogram.com/1pplvdj9eg10pgcrng3p9yyedvtzn0pmwjd
TikTok confirms that China-based employees can access US user data:
FCC commissioner ask Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores:
Google Manipulates Users Into Allowing Tracking, Groups Tell FTC:
New York AG Blasts Google Over Anti-Abortion Centers In Maps:
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2022.06.28_letter_to_google_re_cpcs.pdf
Abortion Ruling Spurs Calls For New Privacy Protections:
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-statement-on-the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade
HHS Guidance to Protect Patient Privacy in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on Roe:
Here’s What Period Tracking Apps Say They Do With Your Data:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkpbq/period-tracking-apps-data-privacy-safety
Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/27/stardust-period-tracker-phone-number/
BS Warning: Public transport is ditching cash—but here’s why that’s OK
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/29/1055154/public-transportation-cashless-explainer/
Three Easy Ways to Find Hidden Cameras in Hotels and Rental Homes:
Meta Agrees to Change Ad Technology as Part of Settled DOJ Lawsuit:
https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/meta-to-change-ad-technology-as-part-of-settled-doj-lawsuit
Meta is Actively Blocking Link to Class Action Payout It Owes for Spying on Its Users:
https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-blocks-links-to-class-action-website/
Lawmakers Want Apple and Google Investigated for “building advertising-specific tracking IDs into their mobile operating system”
https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/lawmakers-ask-ftc-investigate-mobile-tracking-apple-google
Amazon improves retail palm scanners:
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/in-store-shopping-technology-re-mars-2022
‘Supercookies’ (Digital Tokens) Have Privacy Experts Sounding the Alarm:
https://www.wired.com/story/trustpid-digital-token-supercookie/
How to keep your data from brokers and marketers:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90764728/how-to-keep-your-data-from-brokers-and-marketers
Petvation- Smart Pet Door Uses Facial Recognition to ID Your Pets:
Senators ask mental health app companies to provide information on use of personal data:
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2022.06.22%20Letter%20to%20Mental%20Health%20Apps%20on%20Data%20Privacy%20and%20Sharing1.pdf
MCG Health data breach affected 1.1M people:
https://www.2news.com/townnews/computer_science/mcg-health-llc-reporting-data-breach-possibly-involving-patients-personal-information/article_cce495a8-f649-11ec-892d-ef03828454da.html
Yale New Haven Hospital data breach:
https://www.ynhh.org/news/yale-new-haven-hospital-announces-breach-of-radiology-files
Flagstar bank data breach affects 1.4M customers:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/1-5-million-customers-impacted-in-flagstar-data-breach/
Stokes Regional Eye Centers data breach:
https://stokeseye.com/assets/files/stokes-notice.pdf
Big Brother In Your Car: A Scottish driver was arrested for drunk driving after his vehicle dialed 911 after striking light pole
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/drunk-mercedes-driver-snared-after-27348023
US Supreme Court May Take Aim At Whistleblower Protection Law:
https://shadowproof.com/2022/06/28/us-supreme-court-to-review-whistleblower-law-fca/
Agencies aren’t always capable of investigating their own whistleblower complaints:
How did a rental startup I’d never heard of leak my home address?
"Read your apartment's privacy policy."
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/bilt-address-leak-privacy/
State & Local News
VT- Supreme court wades into records fight in dropped sex assault case against former St. Albans cop:
VT- Burlington Police Commission calls for independent group to investigate racial disparities:
ME- State Police forced by judge to release more disciplinary records:
"The Maine State Police has said it keeps no records of what documents it destroys or when – and per their union contract, troopers can wipe clean their entire disciplinary history before retirement if they have committed no recent disciplinary infractions."
https://www.pressherald.com/2022/07/01/maine-state-police-release-more-disciplinary-records/
ME- More than 20 criminal defendants in Aroostook spent weeks without counsel:
MA- Boston City Council override to cut police funding fails as budget goes into effect:
MA- Officials ask court to end consent decrees governing police and fire hiring:
https://www.ctpublic.org/news/national/2022-06-27/mass-officials-ask-federal-court-to-end-consent-decrees-governing-police-and-fire-hiring
MA- Boston cop gets probation for selling $10k winning lottery ticket for cash, not reporting it on taxes:
MA- Report Calls for Shutdown of States' Only Women’s Prison:
NY- State gun control law requires social media checks:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-approves-gun-law-requiring-buyers-provide-social-media-handles
NY- Public Safety Experts Warn NYPD's Crime-Fighting Strategy Could Backfire
https://www.thetrace.org/2022/06/nyc-shootings-crime-nypd-clearance-rate/
PA- Supreme Court: No reasonable expectation of privacy nor HIPAA privacy in drug prescription database
https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Superior/out/J-S20020-22o%20-%20105192254190029982.pdf
GA- Georgia to spend millions in school safety by hiring 300 more school cops and purchasing 210 tactical kits:
"Gov. Kemp announced for the first time publicly today, that 2.6 million dollars of funding from the State Law Enforcement Training Grant program to enhance SRO training. Plus an additional 4.5 million dollars available in law enforcement grants on the state and local levels."
MI- Flint Residents 'Disgusted' After Court Throws Out Indictments of Top Officials:
MN- Minneapolis Mayor Frey's community safety group rolls out proposals to reform Police Department:
TX- How Much Power Do Police Oversight Offices Really Have?
https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-office-police-oversight/
AZ- Ban on recording police activity within 8 feet passes:
CA- Proposed bill 2273 would require websites and apps to verify visitors’ ID
https://reclaimthenet.org/california-bill-ca-ab-2273-age-appropriate-id-online/
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2273
State's attempt to protect kids online could end adults' internet anonymity:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/28/california_kid_privacy_bill_anonymous/
CA- West Hollywood votes to cut Los Angeles County sheriff funding:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/west-hollywood-votes-los-angeles-county-crime
CA- Bill would restrict doctors’ speech from going against “contemporary scientific consensus”
Even the California Health Coalition Advocacy opposes the bill: “Top doctors in their field from UCSF, Stanford, and other well respected institutions are speaking out about their lack of support for COVID-19 vaccines for children. Would these respected doctors be disciplined if AB 2098 were to pass?
https://reclaimthenet.org/california-presses-ahead-with-bill-restricting-doctors-speech-2098/
World News
BS Warning: UN report- Digital IDs can be ‘highly exclusionary’
Amnesty International response to UN report:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ior40/5749/2022/en/
The ICAO a specialized agency of the UN says a new global health passport (digital ID) is needed to allow seamless travel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization
Thales Group says Most people are eager for digital IDs:
https://reclaimthenet.org/most-people-are-eager-for-digital-ids-military-defense-contractor-says/
Report on Facial Recognition usage in Airports, Buses, Supermarkets etc., Claims COVID Helped Its Expansion:
https://ai-regulation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Report3-MAPFRE-Christakis-et-al.pdf
Japanese researchers claim breath biometrics can ID a person:
"Being able to fully rely on identity check systems is more crucial than ever for public institutions such as airports but also a wide variety of private companies. Researchers from Kyushu University said their olfactory sensor had an accuracy of 97 percent in a first series of tests."
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-develop-security-check-system-that-uses-ones-breath-1719608
EU law enforcement is now authorized to transmit DNA and fingerprint data to the UK:
Europe’s online child abuse law will make us all less safe:
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-online-child-abuse-law-make-us-less-safe/
EFF to EU Court: Keep Encryption Alive
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/eff-european-court-keep-encryption-alive
EU- Google targeted in consumer groups' privacy complaints:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-targeted-fresh-eu-consumer-groups-privacy-complaints-2022-06-29/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-u-s-groups-plan-salvo-of-privacy-complaints-against-google-11656540061
Annual Privacy Forum celebrates its first 10 years, as the links between privacy protection & cybersecurity continue to grow:
Russia- Government tightens control over citizens’ online lives – threatening domestic freedoms and the global internet:
Finland- Government to create national digital ID program:
https://yle.fi/news/3-12510149
Sweden- Data Protection Authority says police failed to delete personal data of people suspected of committing crimes:
https://www.imy.se/globalassets/dokument/beslut/beslut-tillsyn-misstankeregister.pdf
Germany- Data Protection Authority publishes guidelines on health care privacy:
Belgium- Government working to expand Itsme digital ID applications:
https://reclaimthenet.org/belgium-is-the-latest-country-to-propose-a-digital-id-system/
https://www.brusselstimes.com/246070/federal-government-working-to-expand-itsme-application
France- The Council of State upholds Data Protection Authority's 35M euro privacy fine against Amazon:
Spain- Data Protection Authority publishes guidelines on health care privacy:
Italy- Exploit Developer Follows Hacking Team’s Lead, Sells Powerful Spyware To Human Rights Violators:
UK- Government urgently needs new laws on use of facial recognition, warns review:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/28/uk-biometrics-legal-review/
UK- The Department for Work and Pensions agrees to remove Hikivision facial recognition cameras
UK- Downing Street appointed Tory MP to top job despite sexual misconduct allegations:
IRL- Helen McEntee faces Cabinet backlash over gardaí facial recognition:
China- Leaked Documents Reveal Wide Scope of Government's Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18644/china-xinjiang-human-rights
China- The Future Of Policing Is Pervasive, Surveillance-Driven Law Enforcement Crystal Balls:
Hong Kong- Government Purges Any Mention of Tiananmen Square:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/03/asia/hong-kong-june-4-tiananmen-nsl-intl-mic-hnk/index.html
India- Journalists should not be jailed for 'what they write, tweet and say': UN
Twitter deletes accounts protesting government's farming laws:
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-deletes-accounts-protesting-india-farming-laws/
India- Seven airports to use facial recognition to ID passengers:
https://thefederal.com/explainers-2/know-about-digi-yatra-the-facial-recognition-tech-for-airports/
India- Noida International Airport becomes country's first fully digital (facial recognition) airport:
India- Govt Amps Up Facial Recognition Deployment, Claims The Only People Affected Are Criminals:
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/24/indias-government-amps-up-facial-recognition-deployment-claims-the-only-people-affected-are-criminals/
Israel- New Evidence Suggests Government Targets Journalists:
On the day of the shooting, Israeli military spokesperson Ran Kochav told Army Radio that Abu Akleh had been "filming and working for a media outlet amidst armed Palestinians. They're armed with cameras, if you'll permit me to say so," according to The Times of Israel.
Pakistan- Government to use Facial Recognition in Real Estate Transactions:
Saudi Arabia- Government rolls out renewal program for national digital ID program:
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/621669
Nigeria- Abia to Start Facial Recognition Registration of Commercial Drivers:
https://gazettengr.com/abia-to-begin-biometric-registration-of-commercial-drivers-vehicle-owners/
Senegal- Government to create national digital ID program:
AU- Retail giants named in facial recognition tech complaint:
The Good Guys pauses using facial recognition due to complaint:
AU- Casino facial recognition comes under scrutiny after retailer complaints:
Canada- All Speech to be Monitored and Approved by Police in Public Places During this Week’s Canada Day Events:
https://thecountersignal.com/all-speech-to-be-monitored-and-approved-by-police-in-ottawa/
Canada- Royal Canadian Police Admit They Hack Citizens’ Devices to Spy on Them:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/canada-national-police-spyware-phones-00043092
Canada- Privacy Commissioner announces funding for digital ID and facial recognition programs:
Canada- Why Indian immigrants' 1st names sometimes end up as XXX on their passports:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/western-students-passport-xxx-name-1.6502666
Canada- Government's Brutal And Dangerous ‘Pipeline Police’
https://popularresistance.org/canadas-brutal-and-dangerous-pipeline-police/
Canada- Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/29/1054005/toronto-kill-the-smart-city/
Cayman Islands- Government delays release of national digital ID program:
https://www.caymancompass.com/2022/06/22/legislation-still-needed-to-launch-digital-id/