Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each…
By Joel R. McConvey A group of major civil rights organizations in New York is pushing for a statewide ban on the use of facial…
By Joel McConvey “Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching in real…
By Chris Burt Biometrics for getting through the airport, and in one case beyond it was a common theme in four of the most-read articles…
By Edward Hasbrouck In the latest escalation of surveillance of travelers, data from automated license plate readers (APLRs) is being merged with data from devices…
By Joel R. McConvey As the UK pushes forward with digital surveillance projects, the chorus of voices weighing in on the legal, ethical and practical…
By Bianca Gonzalez More companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New York’s Biometric…
Authored by Graham Young via The Epoch Times, “Papers please” used to be the ostinato of totalitarian systems, at least in the movies. With the…
By PPSA Like a gourmand gorging at a banquet table, the government’s growing appetite for expanding surveillance is beginning to get a little hard to…
By Luis Quintero, Stockholm University Web and mobile services try to understand the desires and goals of users by analysing how their interact with their…
Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive…
By Masha Borak Debates continue among British lawmakers on the legality of police deployment of live facial recognition. After the UK Parliament’s Justice and Home…
By Ayang Macdonald The West African nation of Sierra Leone is at full throttle with its digital transformation efforts, and its MOSIP-based foundational identity system…
By Parker Crutchfield, Western Michigan University Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, never wrote things down. He warned that writing undermines memory – that it is…