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Right Aid uses Facial Recognition Technology in Hundreds of its Stores Nationwide
July 29, 2020
Reuters: Rite Aid installed facial recognition technology over the last eight years from a company with links to China's authoritarian government in over 200 stores nationwide, mainly in metro New York and L.A.
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Top MEP Accuses VW of being Complicit in the Oppression of the Uighur Minority in China.
July 27, 2020
Reinhard Bütikofer, the chair of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with China, has slammed Volkswagen for not confronting China over its mistreatment of the Uighur minority in a region where the German carmaker has a factory.
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Social Media Giants Block Requests on Hong Kong User Data
July 08, 2020
After the rollout of new "national security" laws prohibiting the expression of views that Beijing views as secessionist, subversive, terrorist in nature, or as foreign intervention in the territory's internal affairs, social media platforms and messaging apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Google and Twitter, are denying law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong.
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BBC: New Wearable Tracking Device Sparks Fear of Surveillance State in Singapore
July 07, 2020
According to BBC, fears of a surveillance state are being expressed, as the Singapore government develops a wearable device to complement the island's existing contact-tracing app to identify people who might have been infected by those who have tested positive for the Coronavirus.
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Facebook, Social Media Under Pressure from Brands to Address Hate Speech
July 01, 2020
Big retailers, including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Hershey, Honda, Eddie Bauer, The North Face, Levi's, Ben & Jerry's, and Verizon, are withholding advertising to pressure Facebook and other social media platforms to better monitor online hate speech.
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