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UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 days ago

Almost 200 prisoners released in error' last year in UK's broken' jail system

Almost 200 prisoners were mistakenly released in England and Wales last year, causing significant strain on police resources.
EU data protection
fromPrivacy International
4 days ago

Moving Goalposts: Football, Facial Recognition and the Expansion of Surveillance

Facial recognition technology in UK football raises significant privacy and accountability concerns beyond its intended operational use.
Privacy technologies
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

You can now pass through TSA PreCheck at Logan using only your face. Should that make us nervous?

TSA's Touchless ID facial recognition system expands to 65 airports, enabling passengers to pass security using only their face, though privacy advocates warn it normalizes mass surveillance.
fromPrivacy International
1 month ago

Dual-use tech: the Thales example

Thales S.A. is a French defence and security company specialising in electrical components. Its products range from radar systems, aircraft electronics, drones, missiles and satellites, to sensors, ID cards, e-Gates, biometric databases and cryptographic tools. The company emerged in the 1890s as a French subsidiary of the forerunner of US conglomerate General Electric.
Information security
Privacy professionals
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The global south is being surveilled into compliance and Silicon Valley calls it development - Silicon Canals

Technology companies extract valuable personal data from Global South populations through development-framed digital infrastructure projects, concentrating data ownership and control in private corporations while host countries receive limited access.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The global infrastructure of digital ID is being built right now - and nobody voted for it - Silicon Canals

What I walked through wasn't just an immigration gate. It was a node in a rapidly expanding global infrastructure of digital identity, one being constructed at extraordinary speed, across dozens of countries, by a mix of governments, multilateral organizations, and private technology vendors. The people building it believe they are solving real problems: fraud, statelessness, inefficient public services, financial exclusion.
Privacy technologies
World politics
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

From Nairobi to Shenzhen to Sao Paulo: the global surveillance stack is being built fastest in the places with the least power to resist it, and almost nobody in Silicon Valley is talking about it - Silicon Canals

Surveillance infrastructure deployment is accelerating in developing nations through fragmented procurement processes, with Chinese vendors gaining market share by avoiding regulatory scrutiny that Western competitors impose.
Travel
fromTravel + Leisure
8 months ago

Passport Stamps Are Disappearing Across 29 Countries This Fall-Here's What Travelers Need to Know

Countries in the European Union will soon replace passport stamps with biometric and electronic border systems, starting from October 12.
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