Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws https://www.wired.com/story/iran-says-face-recognition-will-id-women-breaking-hijab-laws/
Do privacy issues make Facebook vulnerable to competitors? https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/do-privacy-issues-make-facebook-vulnerable-to-competitors-011223.html
Why client-side scanning isn’t the answer https://proton.me/blog/why-client-side-scanning-isnt-the-answer
UK supermarket uses facial recognition tech to track shoppers https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uk-supermarket-biometric-cameras/
Web Hackers vs. The Auto Industry: Critical Vulnerabilities in Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche, and More https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/
Government Snoops in Maine Caught Spying on Peaceful Americans https://reason.com/2023/01/06/government-snoops-in-maine-caught-spying-on-peaceful-americans/
Researchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California’s New Digital License Plates https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn9vx/researchers-track-reviver-digital-license-plate-gps-location
Messenger billed as better than Signal is riddled with vulnerabilities https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/messenger-billed-as-better-than-signal-is-riddled-with-vulnerabilities/
WhatsApp and other messaging services left out of new Australian misinformation code, regulator says https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/09/whatsapp-and-other-messaging-services-left-out-of-new-australian-misinformation-code-regulator-says
EFF and Partners Call Out Threats to Free Expression in Draft Text as UN Cybersecurity Treaty Negotiations Resume https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/eff-and-partners-call-out-threats-free-expression-draft-text-un-cybersecurity
Apple Fined $8.5 Million for Illegally Collecting iPhone Owners’ Data for Ads https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163
Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm https://apnews.com/article/social-media-seattle-lawsuits-mental-health-965a8f373e3bfed8157571912cc3b542
Are quantum computers about to break online privacy? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00017-0
Canada’s national police force admits use of spyware to hack phones https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/canada-national-police-spyware-phones-00043092
Let’s talk about those year-in-review data visualizations https://techtualist.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-those-year-in-review