Recent Privacy News & Articles
Here are some recent articles we found that we wanted to save and share about the state of privacy. These are all articles outside our website. Please use safe browsing practices.
Note that linking to a website does not mean we endorse it or that we agree with everything they write. We just thought it was an interesting article and food for thought. Please do your own research and make decisions for yourself. Tip: Right click the link to open in a new tab.
June and July have been super busy and we haven’t had time to add to this page in a bit. A lot of the articles below are still relevant so we encourage you to take a look at them. We will start adding to this page again as soon as we can. We want to share privacy news!
May 2020
- Google's Coronavirus Test Sites May Be Scooping Up People's Sensitive Information
- Managers turn to surveillance software, always-on webcams to ensure employees are (really) working from home
- Your Boss Wants to Know Whether You Washed Your Hands
- Countries Rolling Out Coronavirus Tracking Apps Show Why They Can’t Work
- The Pandemic Opened the Door For Surveillance
- Why countries keep bowing to Apple and Google’s contact tracing app requirements
- U.K. Virus App Contains Privacy Loopholes, Rights Group Says
- Growing storm over UK’s coronavirus tracing app shows how not to do it
- Cellphone monitoring is spreading with the coronavirus. So is an uneasy tolerance of surveillance.
- Three weeks in, Quibi has its first privacy scandal
- Australia's COVIDSafe contact tracing story is full of holes and we should worry
- How the coronavirus is upending medical privacy
- ID2020 Alliance launches digital ID program with Government of Bangladesh and Gavi, announces new partners at annual summit
- India makes government tracing app mandatory for all workers
April 2020
- Will COVID-19 Claim Privacy Among Its Victims?
- A European Contact-Tracing App Might Be More Privacy-Invading Than Apple and Google’s
- Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy
- Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited To Create A Mass Surveillance Network
- Privacy Norms and the Pandemic
- Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
- Telco data and Covid-19: A primer
- Civil liberties group warns of 'invasion of privacy' after Ontario gives police COVID-19 test data
- Building A National ID Tracking System Under The Guise Of Covid-19
- Connecticut town tests 'pandemic drone' to find fevers. Experts question if it would work.
- Zoom 5.0 Update Is A Security And Privacy Booster (Sort Of…)
- China rolls out software surveillance for the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming human rights advocates
- AI Social Distancing Tool Keeps People "Safe"
- How Much Privacy Would You Give Up in Order to Stay Healthy?
- Mass surveillance alone will not save us from coronavirus
- Leaked pics from Amazon Ring show potential new surveillance features
- Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus
- Telling Police Where People With COVID-19 Live Erodes Public Health
- Pandemic Drones to Monitor Crowds From Above to Detect People With Fevers in US
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