Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you ~tech privacy Article 873 words 22 votes
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco? ~tech security Article 2853 words 10 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals ~tech privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
Bill requires employers to keep implanted microchips voluntary for workers ~tech privacy Article 247 words 17 votes
COVID-19 may have been in Italy as early as December 2019, according to new research of sewage samples ~health Article 331 words 8 votes
Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA ~health Article 532 words 7 votes
We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond ~tech Article 1476 words 8 votes
Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students" ~tech privacy Article 720 words 6 votes
Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet ~tech privacy Article 863 words 6 votes
Employee monitoring software surges as companies send staff home ~tech privacy Article 1268 words 18 votes
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by the US government ~misc Link 29 votes
Peter Dutton opens door to new Australian surveillance of journalists via foreign orders ~news australia journalism usa Link 6 votes
Utah Attorney General will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after reports that the founder of the company was once a participant in the KKK and was involved in a synagogue shooting ~tech Article 379 words 16 votes
US Department of Homeland Security attempts military surveillance of the Canadian border ~news usa canada politics Article 921 words 8 votes
Government of Czech Republic adopted tracking of infected individuals via cellular networks ~tech privacy Link 5 votes
The uncensored library: A digital library containing suppressed articles, built inside Minecraft to bypass internet surveillance and censorship ~tech Article 1870 words 16 votes
Dressing for the surveillance age: Is there anything fashion can do to counter the erosion of public anonymity? ~design fashion Article 7101 words 6 votes
Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund will exclude four companies for their vast emissions of greenhouse gases, or at least put them on probation to force them to change ~finance business Article 671 words 8 votes
Removing a GPS tracking device from your car isn’t theft, Indiana Supreme Court rules ~tech Article 574 words 13 votes
I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me. ~tech amazon privacy security.home Article 1905 words, published Feb 13 2020 11 votes
Amazon Ring updates device security and privacy, including adding mandatory two-factor auth—but continues ignoring larger concerns ~tech amazon privacy security.home Article 904 words 9 votes
Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case ~tech Article 4078 words 10 votes
Banning facial recognition misses the point: The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that ~tech Article 1089 words, published Jan 20 2020 5 votes
Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it ~tech privacy Article 3350 words, published Dec 4 2019 11 votes
Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner ~tech Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands ~tech privacy Article 3179 words 35 votes
How NIST tested facial recognition algorithms for racial bias ~tech privacy Article 1216 words 5 votes
How to track President Trump (tracking of government employees using cell phones) ~news usa politics Article 3258 words, published Dec 20 2019 23 votes
One nation, tracked : An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry ~tech privacy Article 4390 words 15 votes
San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits ICE access to criminal justice data ~tech Article 475 words 9 votes
"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit ~tech Article 5 votes
Behind the one-way mirror: A deep dive into the technology of corporate surveillance ~tech privacy Article 13 070 words 9 votes
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track [Uighurs] members of a largely Muslim minority group ~tech Article 5665 words, published Apr 14 2019 13 votes
I got access to my secret consumer score. Now you can get yours, too. ~finance Article 1631 words 14 votes