Your Fourth Amendment Rights Should Not be Limited by Terms of Service
By Jennifer Lynch Last week, we filed an amicus brief in U.S. v. Wilson, a federal appellate case, in which we argued that email providers’…
By Jennifer Lynch Last week, we filed an amicus brief in U.S. v. Wilson, a federal appellate case, in which we argued that email providers’…
By MassPrivateI Gone are the days when you could use a “slug” to purchase a can of soda, because today’s vending machines will know who…
By WeAreChange Facial recognition is being rolled out across the planet at warp speed despite being riddled with errors. Luke Rudkowski and Jason Bermas cover…
By MassPrivateI I hope you enjoyed America’s favorite pastime, because by the end of this year nearly every Major League Baseball (MLB) team will be…
By Aaron Kesel Activist Post previously reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted to develop advanced facial recognition technology that scans the faces of travelers as…
By MassPrivateI A recent European Union (EU) announcement about national IDs will destroy millions of people’s privacy and create a near-global biometric database. An article…
By MassPrivateI In what can only be described as revolting, makers of facial and iris recognition cameras are setting up an exhibit booth at a…
By John W. Whitehead “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been…
By MassPrivateI Across the country fire departments in Connecticut, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Illinois have begun encrypting their radio transmissions, effectively turning them into secret public safety…
By Cindy Cohn and Shahid Buttar When a president threatens to exercise the power to declare a national emergency, our system of checks and balances…
Op-Ed by Joe Wright “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – MLK Readers might remember an article at Activist Post from October 26,…
By Aaron Kesel The government wants a phone for its employees that uses an algorithm to track their location, the way they talk, type and…
By Elias Marat As machine-learning algorithms, big data methods and artificial intelligence are increasingly used in the toolkit of U.S. law enforcement agencies, many are…
By Jennifer Lynch and Adam Schwartz The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that when companies collect biometric data like fingerprints or face prints without…