Topic: surveillance expansion

  • EU Chat Control: Could Governments Monitor Through Robots?

    EU Chat Control: Could Governments Monitor Through Robots?

    The EU's proposed Chat Control framework, initially for online child safety, creates incentives for pervasive monitoring that could extend to robots in homes and hospitals by classifying them as communication services. Mandating continuous monitoring for risk assessment introduces significant cyb...

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  • DHS Proposes Single Search Engine for Facial and Fingerprint Data

    DHS Proposes Single Search Engine for Facial and Fingerprint Data

    The Department of Homeland Security is consolidating its fragmented biometric systems into a single, centralized platform to enable searches across massive databases of faces, fingerprints, and iris scans for enhanced data sharing and operational efficiency. A major technical challenge involves i...

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