📰 Reboot's News Round-Up 📰
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Rating system;
🔴 - Important/Urgent/Imminent
🟠 - Approaching/Noteworthy/Planned
🟢 - Good News
🟢👀 - Good news but beware
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🔴🔴🔴🔴 - UK Medical Research Charity Biobank Loses 500,000 Volunteer Medical Records
THIS is why we need to call time on the wholesale abuse of our most intimate data.
The genetic sequences, medical scans, lifestyle records, their blood, their DNA, and decades of personal health information
of half a million British volunteers spent days listed for sale on Chinese marketplace before anyone at UK Biobank noticed.
Their custodianship failed 198 times in eleven months.
🔴🔴🔴 - Palantir Release Its Terrifying Plans For World Domination
Catch up on the UK's full steam ahead approach to integrate this US military AI based spy-tech company into UK citizen's daily lives, and the battles to stop it.
🔴🔴🔴 - Apple Adds Age Verification to Digital ID in Wallet
Apple Wallet can now be used to confirm a user is over 18 when creating an Apple account, updating iOS, adjusting safety settings, or downloading apps rated 18+. No press release accompanied the change, by the way.
🔴🔴 - UK Police Abuse Surveillance Data to Stalk Exes
''Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
🔴🔴 - US Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
Advanced impaired driving prevention technology will monitor your every blink, glance, and head nod to create a constant biometric assessment of driver alertness and sobriety.
🔴🔴 - Brussels Wants Google’s Search Data
The European Commission wants Google to hand over a forensic-level record of how Europeans use it's search engine refreshed as quickly as Google itself queries the data.
🔴🔴 - Greece Bans Social Media Anonymity
They say that if you're anonymous, your toxic. 🤮
🔴🔴 - Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment
Last week they were winning marathons, this week they're stealing pants from your luggage.
🔴🔴 - Eurail Breach Sees 300,000 Young Travellers Passport Numbers For Sale On the Dark Web
Eurail never needed your passport to sell a rail ticket.
Passport numbers, passport expiry dates, full names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, bank account details, and some health data was found for sale on Telegram.
🟢 - Germany's Military Shuns Palantir
Shame the UK is full steam ahead!
🟢 - Maryland, USA Becomes First State Banning Dynamic Pricing
Dynamic pricing is the use of your personal data to change prices in real time.
This is one reason why we fight mass surveillance!
🟢 - Reboot Privacy Re-designs Website For Clearer, Tracker-Free Browsing
Because you should never be surveilled online.
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