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35 votes
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say
10 votes -
Transport for London’s AI Tube station experiment
11 votes -
The FBI’s new tactic: Catching suspects with push alerts
32 votes -
How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
29 votes -
You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
20 votes -
Windowless skyscrapers. These often misunderstood structures play mysterious roles in our urban landscape. In this video we explore the purposes and intriguing stories of these architectural anomalies
12 votes -
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
34 votes -
Mike Johnson's 'porn monitoring' remarks spark US national security concerns
47 votes -
Denmark's former defence minister and ex-spy chief have spoken of their relief after prosecutors dramatically dropped criminal charges for leaking state secrets
7 votes -
AI cameras took over one small American town. Now they're everywhere
30 votes -
Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published
25 votes -
We know who you are
20 votes -
How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing Danish state secrets that had been in the public domain for years
10 votes -
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
24 votes -
'Shared intelligence' from Five Eyes informed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's India allegation: US ambassador
28 votes -
The impacts of BirdCast, an AI-powered bird migration tracker
10 votes -
Inside ShadowDragon, the tool that lets ICE monitor pregnancy tracking sites and Fortnite players
23 votes -
Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads
36 votes -
How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back
29 votes -
Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
71 votes -
US Congress is debating the controversial surveillance power in section 702 - White House and privacy advocates have strong opinions
10 votes -
US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech
11 votes -
How Chinese surveillance methods are going global
12 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
Are phones really listening to us at all times?
Had an interesting conversation with my colleagues this morning. We were pretty split whether phones listen to us for advertising or not. On one hand, we anecdotally see Google news and ad...
Had an interesting conversation with my colleagues this morning. We were pretty split whether phones listen to us for advertising or not.
On one hand, we anecdotally see Google news and ad suggestions based on what we say. We know our mics are on at all times for voice assistant and music detection. But we also read online talking about how there is no evidence about the phones recording us. It's hard to trust anything nowadays.
67 votes -
On being a c̵o̵m̵p̵u̵t̵e̵r̵ ̵s̵c̵i̵e̵n̵t̵i̵s̵t̵ human being in the time of collapse
12 votes -
Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds
45 votes -
Why we don’t recommend Ring cameras: They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes
29 votes -
France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera, microphone, and GPS, in order to spy on people
79 votes -
Cops are already treating self-driving cars as 'surveillance cameras on wheels'
16 votes -
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there
48 votes -
Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
28 votes -
Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany
26 votes -
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
44 votes -
Criminalization of encryption: The 8 December case
43 votes -
The truth about China's social credit system
33 votes -
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance - A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond
42 votes -
The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens
25 votes -
Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations
10 votes -
An anonymous critic played cat and mouse with Beijing for twelve years. Then he got caught.
12 votes -
Here is the FBI’s contract to buy mass internet data
7 votes -
Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants
10 votes -
US Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to NSA mass surveillance
8 votes -
How Egyptian police hunt LGBT people on dating apps
5 votes -
CES: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen. 1: The...
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen.
1: The dead future of Big Tech - host Robert Evans got his start in journalism doing tech reporting more than a decade ago, including covering CES. he reflects on how the show, and the tech industry as a whole, has changed over that time.
2: The good parts of our future tech dystopia - Robert and co-host Garrison talk about the good / promising parts of what they saw at the show
3: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future - discussion of the creepy / less good stuff they saw at CES, including lots of surveillance cameras & robots
8 votes -
Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
7 votes -
Students rebel against heat-sensing crotch monitor surveillance devices
14 votes -
Banks devising ways to ID mass shooters before they strike
6 votes -
A vast majority of people in the US and Canada suspect their smart speakers can eavesdrop on their conversations, and just over two-thirds think they’ve gotten ads based on that snooping
21 votes