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Portland Seeks to Become First City in Maine to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

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Portland, Maine is looking to join Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland, California in banning facial recognition technology. The ban seeks to prohibit the use of all facial recognition technology by city officials and employees. What is your opinion on this proposal? We strongly support it. Learn more:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2019

Virtual(ly) Private Network: NordVPN’s Breach and the Limitations of VPNs

The popular VPN provider, NordVPN, recently announced a server breach at a third-party data center. This breach has led many users to question what the best strategy is for protecting their privacy and security online. Learn about VPNs and how VPN services can better protect their users in a great EFF article:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2019

India is going ahead with its facial recognition program despite privacy concerns

The Indian government has played down fears of mass surveillance in response to concerns that its proposed facial recognition system lacks adequate oversight. What are your thoughts on this system and the privacy concerns surrounding it? Learn more in a great The Next Web article:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 11, 2019

DNS-over-HTTPS will eventually roll out in all major browsers, despite ISP opposition

All six major browser vendors have plans to support DNS-over-HTTPS (or DoH), a protocol that encrypts DNS traffic and helps improve a user's privacy on the web. Learn more about this protocol, which is already present in all major browsers, that users love and ISPs hate in an interesting ZDNet article:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2019

The Ethics Board of One of the Largest Vendors of Police Tech Makes the Case Against ALPRs

Automated License Plate Readers(ALPRs)—a mass surveillance technology that allows law enforcement to record the location and travel patterns of nearly every driver on the road—are poorly regulated, threaten privacy, and worsen the racial and economic inequalities already ingrained in our justice system. What are your thoughts on this privacy threat and how it should be handled? Learn more in an interesting EFF article:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2019

Mind-reading technology: The security, privacy and inequality threats we will face

Brain computer interface technology is developing fast. But just because we can read data from others' minds, should we? One thing is for sure: the implications that BCIs would have on privacy, security and inequality should be taken into account. What are your thoughts on this? Learn more:

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 29, 2019

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Portland Seeks to Become First City in Maine to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

Virtual(ly) Private Network: NordVPN’s Breach and the Limitations of VPNs

India is going ahead with its facial recognition program despite privacy concerns

DNS-over-HTTPS will eventually roll out in all major browsers, despite ISP opposition

The Ethics Board of One of the Largest Vendors of Police Tech Makes the Case Against ALPRs

Mind-reading technology: The security, privacy and inequality threats we will face

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