By Nicholas West After decades of tech companies and the U.S. military overlapping in a variety of ways, it appears that the largest of them…
By Nicholas West A new type of court case has been slowly but steadily emerging within the American legal system: alleged crimes being detected from…
By Nicholas West The future of travel is clearly one where automation will play an increasingly significant role. The biometric roll out is well underway…
By Nicholas West Biometric identification has quietly rolled out at several U.S. airports and various locations around the world. In some cases, it has been…
By Nicholas West Just a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable…
By Nicholas West The very nature of the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution appears to be at stake as the data…
By Nicholas West One of the most insidious side effects emerging in our modern world of digital tracking and Big Data goes far beyond the…
By Nicholas West Apparently the era of “digital papers please” is upon us. Earlier this year, in March, I reported on allegations that travelers on…
By Nicholas West Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it…
By Nicholas West As the march toward a cashless (and privacy-less) society accelerates forward, a new high watermark has been reached. India first introduced its…
By Nicholas West High-tech drug delivery systems continue to be researched. I’ve extensively covered the move toward nanorobotics that can do everything from deliver drugs…
By Nicholas West Anyone who is looking to understand exactly what the term “mission creep” means and why privacy advocates warn of its negative impact,…
By Nicholas West Biometric identification at U.S. airports has quietly been rolling out at various locations around the country. In some cases, it has been…
By Nicholas West One of America’s oldest insurance companies, John Hancock, has its eyes set firmly on the future. With the arrival of Big Data…
