https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/23fab201-b21f-4188-89e4-b029f7071242 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: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/trumps-megabill-expands-biometric-surveillance, Dean Cain joins ICE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yp8l3z0g5o, ICE access to medicaid data: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-access-medicaid-data, Industry Day at the US Customs and Border Protection: ⁠https://theintercept.com/2025/07/23/cbp-border-patrol-ai-surveillance/, UK Subcutaneous trackers: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary, Azure use by Israeli Government⁠: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud, Inquiry by Microsoft⁠: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/microsoft-launches-inquiry-claims-israel-used-tech-mass-surveillance-palestinians, Investor concerns about Microsoft use by Israeli government⁠: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-11/microsoft-investors-prod-company-over-work-with-israeli-military, Israeli government use of Google services⁠: https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/, ⁠Data sovereignty and Data Localisation in Africa and Asia⁠: https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-data-sovereignty/, Meta violates California's wiretap law⁠: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/meta_flo_data/, PI's original app data investigation⁠: https://privacyinternational.org/appdata, PI's most recent look at period apps⁠: https://privacyinternational.org/learning-resources/no-bodys-business-mine-vol-2, Amazon Alexa ads?⁠: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations/, Grok advertisers⁠: https://www.ft.com/content/3bc3a76a-8639-4dbe-8754-3053270e4605, ⁠Pew researchers study Google AI summaries⁠: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/, 404 media's experience with Google AI⁠: https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/, Cloudflare experimenting with pay per crawl feature for AI companies⁠: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/, You can donate to PI!: pvcy.org/donatepill, Pilot programme - drones in Florida schools⁠: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/demonstrated-at-south-florida-school-texas-company-touts-drone-response-system-for-school-shootings/, Axon's ethics board resignations over taser drones⁠: https://www.wired.com/story/axon-taser-drones-ethics-board/, UK facial recognition database searches⁠: https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5635/revealed-skyrocketing-scale-uk-polices-secret-facial-recognition-searches, 100 page ICO complaint: privacyinternational.org/legal-action/ico-complaint-against-uks-automated-recommendation-tools-immigration-operations Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:15:56 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://media.privacyinternational.org https://media.privacyinternational.org/lazy-static/avatars/5c7454e0-676b-43a0-8933-4867d0c1f2e6.png https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/23fab201-b21f-4188-89e4-b029f7071242 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://media.privacyinternational.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.