Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reason.com/2024/04/03/kansas-police-facing-lawsuit-after-conducting-illegal-raid-against-small-town-paper/
"Last year, Kansas police raided the offices of a small local newspaper, seizing computers, the newspaper's file server, and even personal cellphones. Police also raided the home of the newspaper's owners, Eric and Joan Meyer.

On Monday, one of the paper's owners filed a lawsuit against the police, arguing that the raids clearly violated the First and Fourth Amendments"
#privacy #FirstAmendment #FourthAmendment

https://reclaimthenet.org/feds-surveillance-of-everyone-that-watched-certain-youtube-videos
"Recently, it came to light that US courts are issuing orders to YouTube (Google) to hand over user information – a previously unreported form of dragnet investigation. And now additional details about the practice are emerging."
#privacy #FourthAmendment #YouTube

https://edri.org/our-work/europol-and-biometric-surveillance-won-the-czech-big-brother-awards/
"The winners were selected by a jury of journalists, IT experts and lawyers. One of the most impressive cases the jury looked at was the Czech police’s facial recognition tool. The database of the tool contains 20 million passport and ID card photos, against which the police can identify people."
#privacy

https://edri.org/our-work/new-eu-health-data-law-endangers-medical-secrecy/
"After almost two years of legislative negotiations, lawmakers from the European Parliament and EU member states have agreed on a compromise for the new European Health Data Space (EHDS) last week.

Unfortunately, the EHDS compromise will expose everyone’s medical records to unnecessary security and privacy risks in the name of research and “innovation”. It mandates every hospital and every doctor to share the private medical data from every single patient—for the purpose of secondary use, i.e. unrelated to the patient’s treatment—with a national agency, the so-called health data access body. Exactly how and what patient data is going to be shared may vary from member state to member state."
#privacy #EHDS

https://edri.org/our-work/mandatory-fingerprints-on-ids-will-be-up-for-re-negotiation/
"According to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment in case C-61/22, the EU regulation (2019/1157) enacting mandatory fingerprints on ID cards has been adopted on an incorrect legal basis and is therefore invalid.

This is a small victory for EDRi member Digitalcourage, who had taken legal action against the regulation. A disappointing aspect of the ruling is that the mandatory insertion of fingerprints in ID cards as a principle was found to be compliant with European fundamental rights. Via the ECJ’s decision, the effects of the regulation will stay in place until 31 December 2026 or until a new regulation comes into force. European citizens applying for a new ID card are therefore still obliged to have prints of both their index fingers stored on the chip contained in the ID card."
#privacy #Biometrics

https://reclaimthenet.org/major-league-baseball-begins-biometric-facial-recognition-scans
"Technology developed by a company called NEC has been utilized to introduce biometric ticketing on the opening day of the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. This pilot was undertaken at four designated baseball parks, including Minute Maid Park in Houston"
#privacy #FaceRecognition

https://reason.com/2024/04/02/texas-takes-intellectually-disabled-inmate-off-death-row/ This might be of interest to #HumanRights folks.

I don't know how to handle Ireland in such a case though.

After leaving the E.U., there was a great earthquake and the British isles flew off into outer space. They're passing by Mars now. Lol.

Skynet is unfairly discriminated against. He is really a nice guy. Lol.

After being accused of using "AI", someone might reply, I'm not "using" "AI", I am an "AI", lol.

The curse of technosolutionistic censorship / surveillance.

Anonymity is very important for free expression.