CDP Institute

Surfshark recently released the results of a global survey of 150 cities, showing those with the most surveillance cameras per square kilometer. Chennai with 657 and Hyderabad, India top the list. Six Chinese cities are also in the top 10 as is London with 399. Paris has 254, whereas New York City cames in with under 26 per square kilometer. Surfshark projects the global number of CCTVs will hit one billion by the end of 2021.

CNIL says French data privacy rules were breached by police because they did not blur faces of people filmed, and demonstrators could be easily identified.

Accounts for users 13-15 will be private by default and the app will have tighter controls for all users under 18.

Big change to law effective 2023: FAA wants to know your & your drone’s location.

Software safeguards sensitive data, maintains compliance; key in COVID tracking.

Clearview AI sees 26% spike following U.S. Capitol attack Clearview AI, which raised privacy concerns for amassing billions of facial images scraped without consent from social media, is used by some in law enforcement to help identify Capitol rioters quickly.

Facebook and Snapchat stand to lose most from new Apple IDFA changes according to new report MKM Partners research report indicates Facebook may have had good reason for its opposition to Apple’s new Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) rules, and could face a 3%-5% loss.

WhatsApp’s founder famously said: “Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA.” Not so much it seems when you look at the metadata being collected and shared by WhatsApp owner, Facebook. Read More Now some experts are calling out reasons to drop Facebook in 2021. Read More

The city-state, which originally assured citizens its COVID TraceTogether program was only for virus tracking, has admitted data was also accessible for police use. Now, rather than reverse course, officials are passing “urgent” legislation to allow this and other types of sensitive data to be used for serious crime investigation.

 “Protect data, adopt framework, assess practices, maintain oversight.”

New 2021 initiative.