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EU placing new restrictions on facial recognition and espionage technology exports

The European Union is working on a plan to increase the strictness of export criteria for biometrics and other technologies…

 

Aussie government failed to conduct privacy impact assessments on security measures

An independent report has found that Australia’s federal government has failed to perform adequate privacy impact assessments on nearly 90…

 

Suspicious government to fingerprint employees, spy on citizens

As the Harper government nears nine years in power, it continues to demonstrate that it has no trust for its…

 

Canadian anti-terror agencies, law requires oversight

Earlier this year, new disclosures from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden unveiled that Canada’s electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment,…

 

U.S. spying on ordinary Internet users, Germany

According to a recent report published in the Washington Post, the U.S. intelligence community targets far more ordinary Internet users,…

 

NSA collects facial recognition quality images from intercepted communications: report

The NSA has been harvesting images from communications it intercepts for facial recognition processing. This according to a report in…

 

Canadian academics, privacy groups issue statement against mass spying

In Canada this week, a number of academics have become signatories to a statement calling upon governments to reign in…

 

U.S. continues to spy on ordinary citizens

During a recent trip to Europe, President Obama said that the U.S. intelligence community was not snooping on “ordinary citizens,”…

 

Obama’s new measures won’t limit government spying

Despite President Obama directing his administration to reform U.S. surveillance programs in order to make the intelligence community more transparent,…

 

NSA illegally collected data with wide surveillance reach

This week, the U.S. Government officially released declassified documents that show that the National Security Agency was illegally collecting a broad…

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