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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

SiteLock

These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders. The OTA evaluated these websites based on criteria in mainly three categories: consumer protection, privacy and security. Almost Half of Leading Websites Fail Security and Privacy Tests.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.