Privacy International

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