New US Campaign Calls for Moratorium on Facial Recognition Surveillance
By Julia Conley “Imagine if we could go back in time and prevent governments around the world from ever building nuclear or biological weapons. That’s…
Civil Liberties
EFF Sues AT&T, Data Aggregators For Giving Bounty Hunters and Other Third Parties Access to Customers’ Real-Time Locations
SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP filed a class action lawsuit today on behalf of…
City Halls Use Facial Recognition To Blacklist And Ban Residents
By MassPrivateI I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Local governments and private corporations are using facial recognition to…
Knowing the “Value” of Our Data Won’t Fix Our Privacy Problems
By Hayley Tsukayama Some lawmakers, seeking to hold companies accountable for the way they collect and profit from our personal information, are pushing a new…
Palantir’s Software For Fusion Centers Exposed In California FOIA
By Aaron Kesel ‘Gotham’ software written by Palantir shows how government agencies can use very little information to obtain quick access to anyone’s personal minutiae….
Philadelphia Is Using A SONIC WEAPON To Keep Kids Away From Parks! (Not The Onion!)
By Press For Truth Is it satire, is it science fiction or are city council members and police in Philadelphia completely losing their minds? City…
FBI, ICE Using Facial Recognition to Scan Millions of Driver’s License Photos
By Jake Johnson A trove of public records obtained by privacy experts at Georgetown Law revealed that ICE and the FBI have used facial recognition…
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Signals It Will investigate NSA Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and Terror Watchlists
By Matthew Guariglia After a long dormant stretch, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) has signaled it’s ready to tackle another big review…
Watch as Cops Taser, Pepper Spray Dad in Front of His Kids, for Filming
By Matt Agorist Chicago, IL — In the land of the free, there are ostensible checks and balances which are in place to prevent corrupt…
Police Departments Begin Dumping Faulty Pre-Crime A.I. Programs
By Nicholas West Slowly but surely it seems the promises made by Big Tech that the answers to crime could be provided by mass surveillance…
Watch as Good Cops Honor Oath to Constitution, Uphold Man’s Right to Film, Instead of Violating It
By Matt Agorist Williamston, SC — Filming the police is entirely legal in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep…
A Major Police Body Camera Maker Hits Pause on Face Surveillance
By Haley Tsukayama Communities and lawmakers across the country are waking up to the fact that using face recognition for government surveillance is a troubling…
Victory: California Orders State Audit of Automated License Plate Readers
By Dave Maass A California legislative committee today voted to direct the State Auditor to launch a probe into the use of automated license plate…
How Evil Wins: The Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
By John W. Whitehead “She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel,…