Consumer Protection Manufacturing Surveillance 
Jane Frankland
JANUARY 12, 2025
These challenges include bias and discrimination embedded in algorithms, privacy violations due to enhanced surveillance capabilities, and the difficulty of assigning accountability for decisions made by AI systems. Africa : Nations are developing data protection laws, with some like Nigeria and Tanzania already implementing new regulations.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. It falls upon lawmakers to create laws that protect consumers. It's easier to extend the protection to everyone.
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 4, 2019
Where are the consumer protection agencies? Manufacturers of those systems have included cameras for possible future uses, such as hand gestures to control in-flight entertainment.". "The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs," the spokesperson said.
SC Magazine
MARCH 10, 2021
A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., granting them access to live and archived video feeds across multiple organizations, including manufacturing facilities, hospitals, schools, police departments and prisons. When surveillance leads to spying.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Wednesday’s enforcement action represents a much firmer stance from the FTC compared to the settlement it reached in 2019 , when the government agency refrained from even using the term “stalkerware” and it focused more on lacking cybersecurity protections within the apps it investigated, not on the privacy invasions that were allowed.
Malwarebytes
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
In a recent blog, privacy company Proton explained how Google is spending millions lobbying and actively fighting against privacy laws that would protect you from online surveillance. This is done under the guise that Google wants regulators to let companies decide themselves what’s good for you and for society.
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