More news about the slavery you signed up for... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51237665 The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsin... Program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world's biggest companies. Clients include Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pepsi, Sephora, Home Depot, Conde Nast, Intuit, and many others. Some clients paid millions of dollars for products that include a so-called "All Clicks Feed," which can track user behavior, clicks, and movement across websites in highly precise detail. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dolla... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-private-investig... The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers' personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard. DMVs across the country are selling data that drivers are required to provide to the organization in order to obtain a license. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/australia-wants-to-use-face-reco... https://www.cnet.com/news/australian-government-biometric-face-verification-... "Home Affairs is developing a Face Verification Service which matches a person's photo against images used on one of their evidence of identity documents to help verify their identity," "the first phase of its new biometric Face Verification Service (FVS) is up and running, giving a number of government departments and the Australian Federal Police the ability to share and match digital photos of faces." Initially, the system was fairly limited. It only included photos of people who had applied to become Australian citizens. And use of the database was supposed to be limited to a handful of government agencies with a compelling need for it. But since then, the government has steadily expanded the system. Photos from other sources were added to the database. And Australia has been trying to develop a more sophisticated Face Identification Service that can identify unknown persons. "The Face Verification Service is not yet fully operational," the government acknowledges. "Whilst it is intended to be made available to private sector organizations in future, this will be subject to the passage of the Identity-matching Services Bill 2019 which is currently before Parliament."