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Australia wants to identify all social media users with digital IDs

Anyone who spends time on social media and is active there is to be able to be uniquely identified with a digital ID in Australia from now on. There is a lot of discussion about biometric and digital identification. [...]

Date: 04 Aug. 2022 Tags: Australia, digital ID, Social Media, Identity programs, misinformation, privacy

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Cameras monitor the area around Tesla

At Tesla, the surroundings of a vehicle are actually monitored by cameras. Data protectionists are sounding the alarm, and Tesla is being targeted and sued because of this monitoring. [...]

Date: 01 Aug. 2022 Tags: Tesla, cameras, monitor, surroundings, Target, data protection

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Which data traces travelers leave behind

Data is also collected domestically, mainly mostly the movement profiles of travelers. Passenger data is also collected by bus companies or rail operators, for example. To what extent these are then transmitted is unclear. [...]

Date: 28 Juli 2022 Tags: Travelers, data trances, flights, bookings, hotels, data hunters

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New internal documents show tech giants pushing out competitors

The documents — which include emails, memos and strategy papers — were shared by the House Judiciary committee, which obtained them as part of its long-running antitrust investigation of Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta that wrapped in October 2020 with a 450-page staff report. [...]

Date: 21 Juli 2022 Tags: Google, amazon, Big-Tech, Documents, Politico, prioritize

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Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings

“Everything is seen in China,” said a member of TikTok’s Trust and Safety department in a September 2021 meeting. Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China [...]

Date: 13 Juli 2022 Tags: TikTok, Leaked, Data, App, data privacy, user data