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This Delhi gang promises loans online and uses funds to invest in cryptos
The accused, identified as Deepak Patwa (23), Sunil Kumar Khatik (34), Dev Kishan (32) and Sures…
PTI
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The tech industry is blowing millions of dollars to make work from home into a worker-surveillance dystopia
Virtual workspaces don't do anything to make working any better. Companies will just use them to ma…
Ed Zitron
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India's three main surveillance projects NATGRID, CMS and NETRA have been directed to stop collecting data citing breach of privacy
The Delhi High Court has issued a notice today asking India’s central government to stop collecting…
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Amazon's empire of surveillance: Through recent billion-dollar acquisitions of health care services and smart home devices, the tech giant is leveraging its monopoly power to track 'every aspect' of our lives
Amazon's latest purchases of One Medical Group and iRobot have spurred concerns from antitrust advo…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Stalk, troll and control: Indian government wants to track your online activities more effectively
However, like most governments, the Indian government understands that social media is more than…
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A new law allows Putin to draft Russians via an online portal — even if they don't have an account. It 'brings the digital Gulag much, much closer,' critics say
Russian conscripts can now be notified of frontline military service through an online government p…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Tech companies promised schools an easy way to detect cheaters during the pandemic. Students responded by demanding schools stop policing them like criminals in the first place.
Exam monitoring startup Proctorio's attempts to silence critics has helped shine a spotlight on cla…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Europe's lawmakers ask Jeff Bezos: Does Amazon spy on politicians?
The EU lawmakers are demanding to know whether Amazon spies on politicians it deems to be "hostile …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Sen. Ron Wyden is introducing a privacy bill that would ban government agencies from buying personal information from data brokers
The bill, dubbed "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale," is expected to roll out in the coming week…
Katie Canales
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UK firms are selling invasive spy tech to repressive governments around the world
The UK is profiting from selling spy tech to countries with questionable human rights records.
Samuel Wooodhams
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Google puts a ban on non-consensual ad tracking, digital experts welcome the move
Advertising of spyware and malware with the intent to track user data without their authorization o…
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A tech exec is funding a network of hundreds of security cameras in San Francisco, turning community groups into crime watchdogs with support from the city's DA
If police departments want to access the video footage, they have to ask the neighborhood coalition…
Katie Canales
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People are buying used police body cameras on eBay and other sites and discovering unencrypted footage of officers searching homes
One customer said it was "stupid easy" to recover videos from the SD card within a used device purc…
Katie Canales
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Activists are trying to track incidents of police misconduct by tapping into NYC's vast network of traffic cameras and sharing footage with the public
Activist group NYC Mesh has already made footage from Manhattan and Brooklyn available, and is work…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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A Chinese city plans to monitor its citizens and rank them by healthiness with an app, making its emergency COVID-19 surveillance regime permanent
Hangzhou is proposing a permanent app similar to the country's coronavirus health app that controll…
Sinéad Baker
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A Chinese woman stuck in a 14-day quarantine watched helplessly via a surveillance camera as her dog demolished her living room and wardrobe
The woman's story generated widespread discussion in China of how pets should be dealt with when th…
Matthew Loh
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I was trolled by pro-Taliban extremists after writing about Muslim feminism
After I wrote a story about my Muslim faith and feminism, extremists reacted online. I didn't expec…
Hafsa Lodi
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Top Stories this AM: Powell says Trump could be 'reinstated'; Osaka withdraws from French Open; Bytedance's surveillance lamp
Osaka was fined $15,000 on Sunday after opting out of a post-game press conference. She cited her m…
INSIDER
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How the coronavirus outbreak could help fuel China's dystopian surveillance system
Almost a million Uighurs have been detained in prison-like re-education camps over alleged infracti…
Alexandra Ma
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Hedge fund legend warns open societies aren't just threatened by autocratic regimes, but social networking giants
"Facebook and Google have grown into ever-more powerful monopolies, they have become obstacle…