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We are a non-profit based in South Africa dedicated to strengthening public oversight of state and private intelligence actors in Africa and around the world.
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Russia to require all phones to come with government-backed Whatsapp clone. #statesurveillance.
mitrade.com
Russia will require all mobile phones and tablets sold in the country to come with a government-backed messaging app called Max pre-installed from September 1. The Russian government announced on...
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CISA warns of Apple zero-day used in targeted cyberattacks. @TheRecord_Media .#zerodayattack.
therecord.media
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave civilian federal agencies until September 11 to implement a fix for CVE-2025-43300 — a vulnerability affecting popular brands of Apple...
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Met’s use of live facial recognition ‘incompatible’ with human rights law, regulator says .#facialrecognition.
holyrood.com
The EHRC the Met's use live facial recognition could have a “chilling effect” on human rights and put democracy at risk
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AI Chatbots and Facial Recognition: Privacy in Peril. #facialrecognition.#PrivacyMatters.
opentools.ai
In a deep dive into the evolving landscape of AI technologies, concerns over privacy, security, and surveillance are mounting. The integration of AI chatbots and the expansion of facial recognition...
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Big Brother 2.0: How AI-driven policing threatens civil liberties. .#surveillancestate.
barandbench.com
George Orwell's dystopian vision of an omnipresent surveillance state in the novel 1984 once seemed like an exaggerated fiction. Today, the rapid integration of
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Trump administration to begin continuous police-state surveillance of 55 million US visa holders. .#Surveillance.
wsws.org
The State Department said the government will begin reviewing all visa holders’ social media accounts for posts or messages that evince support for “terrorism.”
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Russia to pre-install WhatsApp clones on every phone in the country. .#surveillance.#governmentsurveillance.
cryptopolitan.com
Russia will mandate pre-installation of its state-backed messaging app Max on all phones and tablets from September 1.
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RT @BigBrotherWatch: ⚠️Police are using dangerous live facial recognition in a "democratic and legal vacuum". @madeleine_st0ne tells Good M….
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Corporate responsibility in the age of surveillance and transnational repression: legal obligations and human rights due diligence. .#surveillancetechnologies.
ibanet.org
The proliferation of advanced surveillance technologies has outpaced the evolution of legal safeguards, potentially resulting in significant threats to privacy, the freedom of expression and other...
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Police forces in Wales scrutinised over use of facial recognition technology. .#facialrecognition.
penarthtimes.co.uk
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has scrutinised the use of facial recognition technology by two police forces
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Facial Recognition In Policing And Smart Cities: Balancing Innovation With Responsibility via @forbes .#facaialrecognition.
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UK equality watchdog: Met Police facial recognition unlawful. #facialrecognition.
computerweekly.com
The UK’s equality watchdog has been granted permission to intervene in a judicial review of the Met Police’s live facial recognition (LFR) use, which it claims is being deployed unlawfully
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Opinion - Texas is taking digital surveillance to new extremes. .#digitalsurveillance.
aol.com
The South has become a testing ground for how far this sort of digital control can go.
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said it believes the Metropolitan Police’s policy on live facial recognition (LFR) is unlawful. .#facialrecognition.
ukauthority.com
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Met police’s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog. #facialrecognition.
theguardian.com
Use of cameras at Notting Hill carnival could have ‘chilling effect’ on people’s rights, says equality regulator
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Real-time facial recognition meets real-world debate, but where’s the data? via @BiometricUpdate .#facialrecognition.
biometricupdate.com
The debate is running up against a dearth of evidence about how real-time remote biometrics work in actual deployment to public spaces.
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Human rights regulator criticises Met's use of facial recognition cameras. .#facialrecognition.
bbc.com
The Equality and Human Rights Commission says it believes the Met's use of the tech is unlawful.
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'Facial recognition tech mistook me for wanted man'. .#facialrecognition.
bbc.com
Shaun Thompson is challenging the Met Police's use of live facial recognition technology.
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South Africa is sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state. .#statesurveillance.
mg.co.za
Facial recognition technology is widespread, eroding privacy and anonymity, echoing apartheid-era controls, with lax legal enforcement
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