Twitter “Unintentionally” Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising
By Gennie Gebhart and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews Stop us if you’ve heard this before: you give a tech company your personal information in order to use…
By Gennie Gebhart and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews Stop us if you’ve heard this before: you give a tech company your personal information in order to use…
By Michael Maharrey Yesterday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that bans police from using facial recognition and biometric scanners with body-worn…
By Daniel Taylor A September, 2019 report from the Carnegie Foundation found that Chinese artificial intelligence surveillance systems are rapidly overtaking the planet. Chinese companies…
By Joe Wright For a number of years now, I have been chronicling the ever-widening use of “The Constitution-Free Zone” by Border Patrol agents in…
By Tyler Durden The FBI’s use of electronic surveillance tools violated the constitutional privacy rights of Americans whose communications were swept up in a controversial…
By B.N. Frank According to an article published last August in Smart Cities Dive, 66% of Americans don’t want to live in “Smart Cities.” The…
By Daisy Luther These days, you can’t really go anywhere without encountering cameras. Going into a store? Chances are there are security cameras. Getting money…
By Aaron Kesel The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition technology to access the…
By Andrew Crocker and Joe Mullin Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor…
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law…
By Aaron Kesel FaceFirst is another company with something to lose if facial recognition regulation bans the technology. They have now entered the lobbying ring…
By MassPrivateI Forget everything you have ever heard about police license plate readers and public safety, because it is all a lie. Three major automated…
By MassPrivateI Today, I give you a frightening story about free speech censorship and watchlists just in time for the countdown to Halloween. A recent…
By Sean Walton What began as a way to increase public safety has turned into a civil rights concern. Some residents of San Diego, California…