EDRi-gram, 14 October 2020
EDRi-gram | Privacy and data protection | Biometrics | Privacy and confidentiality
The public are being treated as experimental test subjects: across these examples, it is clear that members of the public are being used as subjects in high-stakes experiments which can have real-life impacts on their freedom, access to public services, and sense of security.
By EDRi · October 14, 2020
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