News & Articles By Mary Villareal
12/25/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Swedish startup introduces implantable microchip that can store a COVID passport under your skin
Epicenter, a Stockholm-based startup, recently introduced a microchip that can contain personal identification like the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) passport and can be implanted under the human skin. The company noted that the implant can be read by any device using a near-field communication protocol technology that is already widely available: They are currently used for […]
12/13/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Big Brother is here: Governments exploit pandemic to normalize surveillance
Citizens of South Korea are giving up their personal data and privacy in exchange for convenience, order and safety. The technology-laden “smart city” being built on the southern coast of the country epitomizes this daily bargain. Children today are being born into an already digitally interconnected reality where big data and artificial intelligence will shape their […]
12/08/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Family safety app found to be selling precise location data on millions of individuals, including children
Life360, a popular family safety app used by over 33 million people worldwide, was found to be selling data on the precise locations of children and other family members to data brokers, who then sell the information to “virtually anyone who wants to buy it.” Two former employees of Life360 and two individuals formerly employed by data […]
12/02/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Swedish biohacker promotes use of microchips to record COVID-19 status
A Swedish biohacker and advocate for human augmentation is now promoting the use of microchips implanted under the skin to record Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) certificate status. Hannes Sjöblad, co-founder of BioNyfiken, a Swedish association of biohackers, then showed Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet how to pull up a digital COVID certificate by simply placing his cell phone against his forearm. […]
11/22/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Singapore’s COVID tracking turns it into a veritable surveillance state
Singapore is now using the technology investments that helped propel its economic development to control its citizens. Since the mid-1980s, the country’s philosophy has stayed the same: an ideological and irreconcilable blend of capitalism and state control. The efficient technology in Singapore worked for many Singaporeans, and many have trust in the system. However, this system […]
11/10/2021
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By Mary Villareal
You can now be vaccinated based on your social scores gathered by newly patented digital surveillance technology
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently approved a technology that aims to surveil people via their digital activity and give them scores that define their “potential level of superspreading activity.” Vaccination will then depend on the scores gathered using the technology. The patent put forward by attorneys Gal Ehrlich and Maier Fenster of Ehrlich & Fenster […]
10/21/2021
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By Mary Villareal
TikTok star shares “uncomfortable” amount of data Amazon has on her, including thousands of audio recordings
TikTok star @my.data.not.yours has uploaded a video clip for her fans documenting all the information collected by Amazon about her through some of her devices. She relates that she requested all the data that Amazon has on her and the report came back with information about her location, phone contacts and thousands of recordings of her […]
10/15/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Robot dogs are now being equipped with assault rifles for military use
Ghost Robotics, maker of four-legged robots for the military, has teamed up with SWORD International to build a mechanical dog that is capable of carrying a remote-controlled rifle on its back. The robot dog called Special Purpose Unmanned Rifle (SPUR) has a 6.5 mm Creedmoor rifle from SWORD attached to its back. The SPUR has […]
09/23/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Amazon delivery drivers complain about being unfairly punished by AI cameras
Amazon drivers are complaining that they are being punished for driving habits that are considered safe, and others that are beyond their control. The drivers say that AI-powered cameras in Amazon delivery vans unfairly penalize them for things such as looking at side mirrors, adjusting the radio and even getting cut off in traffic by someone […]
09/17/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Despite security assurance, Facebook is reading WhatsApp user messages
In March 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new “privacy-focused vision,” citing its global messaging service, WhatsApp as a model. He said that he hoped to bring about a future that allows people to be confident that what they say to others stays secure. Zuckerberg’s vision centered on WhatsApp’s signature feature: End-to-end encryption that […]
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