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Uber asked contractor to allow video surveillance in employee homes, bedrooms
Employee contract lets company install video cameras in personal spaces.
Senators press Facebook for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers
Facebook’s decision to close accounts connected to a misinformation research project last week prompted a broad outcry from the company’s critics — and now Congress is getting involved. A handful of lawmakers criticized the decision at the time, slamming Facebook for being hostile toward efforts to make the platform’s opaque algorithms and ad targeting methods […]
Apple says it will refuse gov’t demands to expand photo-scanning beyond CSAM
Apple defends scanning after memo called privacy advocates “screeching voices.”
Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to go into devices
Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a new kind of smartphone app-based search engine, Xayn. “A search engine?!” I hear you say? Well, yes, because despite the convenience of modern search engines’ ability to tailor their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expense of privacy. This mass surveillance […]
Is Big Tech Pressuring Its Call-Center Workers to Install Cameras in Their Homes?
NBC News reports:
Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation’s largest companies are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes to monitor work perfo…
iCloud Photo uploads approved: no material Thinks Different
This week, Apple announced and then explained (pdf) the measures they’re taking to protect children (so: trigger warning) from grooming and to stop abusers from storing images of child sexual abuse in iCloud Photo Storage. Daring Fireball’s Jon Gruber …
Revealed: anti-terror snooping law used for fly-tippers and parking
Campaigners say councils are using Ripa powers to catch ‘low-level’ offenders and disregarding the public’s right to privacyCouncils have used controversial surveillance legislation to combat “low-level” offences, such as the misuse of blue badge parki…
Call centre used by UK firms accused of intrusively monitoring home workers
Unions say Teleperformance also asked some staff based overseas to give biometric and medical dataA multinational call centre used by dozens of leading UK companies has been criticised for what unions have called the intrusive monitoring of home-workin…
Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child sexual abuse images
Apple plans to scan iPhones. Apple will scan photo libraries stored on iPhones in the US for known images of child sexual abuse, the company says, drawing praise from child protection groups but crossing a line that privacy campaigners warn could have …