‘Do not pet’: A robotic dog named “Spot” made by Boston Dynamics is the latest tool in the arsenal of the US Secret Service
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Lawsuit: City cameras make it impossible to drive anywhere without being tracked | "Every passing car is captured," says 4th Amendment lawsuit against Norfolk, VA
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BTK-gate, Turkey's massive surveillance state: Internet activity, identity, and personal data of all users in Turkey is collected
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Exploding pagers and spy chips: the rising risk of hardware tampering
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License plate readers are creating a US-wide database of more than just cars
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While web browsers warm to AI services, holdouts remain including Vivaldi
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In leak, Facebook partner brags about listening to your phone’s microphone to serve ads for stuff you mention
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Microsoft admits that maybe surveiling everything you do on your computer isn’t a brilliant idea
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Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems
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How American evangelicals use digital surveillance to target the unconverted
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The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
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You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
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Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
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AI cameras took over one small American town. Now they're everywhere
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We know who you are
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
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Inside ShadowDragon, the tool that lets ICE monitor pregnancy tracking sites and Fortnite players
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Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads
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How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back
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Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
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US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech
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How Chinese surveillance methods are going global
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A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
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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.
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France passes bill to allow police to remotely activate phone camera, microphone, and GPS, in order to spy on people
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No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Ireland's Data Protection Commission says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched there
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Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
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Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany
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Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
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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
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The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens
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Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations
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Here is the FBI’s contract to buy mass internet data
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Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants
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US Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to NSA mass surveillance
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Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook
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Students rebel against heat-sensing crotch monitor surveillance devices
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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
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Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all inherent attributes of information monopoly
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Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data
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A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal.
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The code the FBI used to wiretap the world
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Coinbase is selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users
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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
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American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on CIA and NSA
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Mozilla Rally - Data collection for research about data collection
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My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai
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Where a thousand digital eyes keep watch over the elderly
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Google releases “disable 2g” feature for new Android smartphones
19 votes