Another take on Apple's plan -- now suspended -- to monitor your iPhone for child pornography:
Your Phone Is Your Private Space: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/spyware-your-iphone-step-too-far-privacy/619987.
The author writes that "future iPhones will almost inevitably scan for more than child porn". First, is this the real risk we're worrying about? Certainly Facebook is censoring more and more content. Would Apple start censoring iMessages that denigrated other social categories?
That your phone is your private space is an excellent point, but also a missed one. Apple is not proposing to check the photos on your phone; they are proposing to check the photos you save on iCloud. This gives Apple a little more credibility; they simply don't want to be storing anyone's child pornography for them.
Apple was going to do the scanning on the phone, as part of the process of uploading to iCloud. Does that make it different somehow?
From Big Brother Watch: YouTube Censors David Davis MP's Speech Against Vaccine Passports: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/10/youtube-censors-david-davis-mps-speech-against-vaccine-passports.
It was a somewhat irresponsible speech, as far as I can tell without actually watching it: Davis is claiming that people should have the "freedom" not to show vaccination records while out in public. But one might also argue that people who don't vaccinate should have the freedom to stay home.
In any event, YouTube reversed themselves: bbc.com/news/uk-politics-58915092.
https://bigbrotherawards.de/en
The EU has decided that automobile manufacturers must record your location in real time, as part of emissions monitoring. (It may just be nearest-tower location, though.)
That is, displaying an ad to just one person. FB had supposedly put mechanisms in place to prevent this, but a research group found a way around them.
www.unite.ai/facebook-nanotargeting-users-based-solely-on-their-perceived-interests.
The paper itself is at arxiv.org/pdf/2110.06636.pdf.
They are rolling out a facial-recognition payment system. This would be creepy even if the country were not Russia: www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/privacy-fears-moscow-metro-rolls-out-facial-recognition-pay-system. It is apparently opt-in, however, and Moscow has tens of thousands of street cameras already (like Chicago).
That is unbelievably counterproductive.
Pennsylvania laptops
News Feeds
Cambridge Analytica
email targeting
Political ads
Credit-like bureaus
Social Credit
Facial Recognition
Tinder
Transactional Privacy
Online advertising and third-party cookies
Location information
Pregnancy
Insurance
Price discrimination