According to documents that were previously undisclosed the Indian government is planning to create a 360 degree database to track every aspect of the lives of every Indian citizen with funding from the World Bank.
According to reports by Politico and Bloomberg, Amazon illegally harvested kids' data via Alexa-powered 'smart' speakers.
According to a report by New Kite Data Labs, the Chinese military is collecting voice data samples of Indians from sensitive border areas for mass surveillance through an Indian middleman.
In a society where anyone can now be terminated from their job and lose their income for an inadvertent comment on social media, what might happen if the same kind of penalties were applied to domestic debates? This is the reality of working from home which now means letting corporate surveillance into your daily life.
Who owns your face? You might think that you do, but consider that Clearview AI, an American company that sells facial recognition technology, has amassed a database of ten billion images since 2020. By the end of the year, it plans to have scraped 100 billion facial images from the internet. It is difficult to assess the company’s claims, but if we take Clearview AI at face value, it has enough data to identify almost everyone on earth and end privacy and anonymity everywhere.
Documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request to the CDC by Motherboard have shown how the CDC has been secretly tracking millions of phones to see if Americans were following the COVID lockdown mandates.
In a recent interview, a UN official admitted that they partner with companies like Google to control the search results and she even claimed that "We Own The Science".
The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) is making efforts to develop global identity system and working with the United Nations and the World Bank to achieve it.
Australia’s federal and state politicians and bureaucracies have revealed beyond any reasonable doubt that they are willing to attack citizens’ rights when it suits their purposes. Australia’s new digital identity system would give tyrannical politicians total control.
Kutumba is the Karnataka government's planned law for a family ID project which is comparable to the upcoming Maharashtra Unified Citizen Data Hub. Technology and data researchers are crossing their fingers that the proposed regulation would provide adequate safeguards for citizen data.
