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About this episode

The episode discusses recent news stories related to technology and privacy issues.

This week we're back to discussing stories that have been in the news over the past few months - in particular the stories that have stayed with us and kept us thinking about them. Links - Expansion of ICE biometrics - ⁠Dean Cain joins ICE ⁠ - ICE access to medicaid data - Industry Day at the US Customs and Border Protection - Inquiry by Microsoft - Investor concerns about Microsoft use by Israeli government - Israeli government use of Google services - Data sovereignty and Data Localisation across Africa and Asia - Meta violates California's wiretap law - PI's original app data investigation - PI's most recent look at period apps - Amazon Alexa ads? - Grok advertisers - Pew researchers study Google AI summaries - 404 media's experience with Google AI - Cloudflare experimenting with pay per crawl feature for AI companies - You can donate to PI! - Pilot programme - drones in Florida schools - Axon's ethics board resignations over taser drones - UK facial recogntion database searches - ICO complaint

Topics covered

• biometrics
• data privacy
• facial recognition
• government surveillance
• data sovereignty
• AI ethics

Keywords

• ICE
• biometrics
• Microsoft
• data privacy
• facial recognition
• Meta
• Amazon Alexa
• AI
• data sovereignty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ICE, Microsoft, Israeli government, Google, Meta, PI, Amazon Alexa, Cloudflare, 404 media, ICO

Places: Florida

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