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TikTok CEO to testify before US Congress next month over data privacy theguardian.com/technology/202…

France plots surveillance power grab for Paris 2024 Olympics “France is seeking to massively expand its arsenal of surveillance powers and tools to secure the millions of tourists expected for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics." politico.eu/article/paris-…

Meta urged to boost Africa content moderation as contractor quits reuters.com/world/africa/m…

Big Brother Watch launch report on different types of government surveillance bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Landmark ruling exposes years of rule breaking by MI5 on data protection privacyinternational.org/press-release/…

Latest on the online safety bill “The Online Safety Bill in its current form gives too much power to the Culture Secretary and could undermine Ofcom’s role as an independent regulator, a House of Lords committee has warned.” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Trump reinstated on Facebook platform Trump has shown little remorse since the attack of The Capitol last year. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google propublica.org/article/websit…

Twitter ‘verified’ check marks bought by Taliban appear to have been removed “Afghanistan’s hardline Islamist rulers had never carried a verification tick mark before the launch of Twitter Blue” theguardian.com/technology/202…

No Data IS Data: what existing but untapped disaggregated data tells us about inequalities in vaccination rates in the Global South minorityrights.org/2023/01/19/no-…

Meta's WhatsApp fined 5.5 mln euro by lead EU privacy regulator reuters.com/technology/met…

Scientists Are Getting Eerily Good at Using WiFi to 'See' People Through Walls in Detail vice.com/en/article/y3p…

Climate Justice is Racial Justice - a call to action for B Corps Study after study has long indicated that People of Color face disproportionate risks from pollution and climate injustice. usca.bcorporation.net/zbtcz1z23z/a-c…

Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content 🎨 Getty Images claims Stability AI ‘unlawfully’ scraped millions of images from its site. theverge.com/2023/1/17/2355…

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic Worker tasked with reading text for told TIME he suffered from recurring visions after reading a graphic description of a man having sex with a dog 🐶 time.com/6247678/openai…

Newham Council rejects use of live facial-recognition tech by police computerweekly.com/news/252529364…

Alongside the report, we have published three commissioned pieces of work for the project: i) An explainer on synthetic data by @turinginst ii) Market research on public sector readiness for PETs adoption by @CDEIUK & @ODIHQ iii) A review of PETs assurance by @hattusia. 3/

In the report, you’ll find a set of use cases for PETs, including real-world case studies, as well as an analysis of commissioned work: UK public sector marketplace (@LondonEconomics & @ODIHQ) & a review of standards and assurances in PETs & related technologies (@hattusia). 4/15

Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook “An MIT Technology Review investigation recently revealed how images of a minor and a tester on the toilet ended up on social media...” technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/106…

UK supermarket uses facial recognition tech to track shoppers 🛒🛒 codastory.com/authoritarian-…