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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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
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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
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Chinese province targets journalists, foreign students with planned new surveillance system
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Our post-privacy world
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A battle among homeowners in Colorado shows how license plate scanners are reshaping American neighborhoods
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Los Angeles Police Department told to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime
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Researchers who built similar system explain why Apple's CSAM scanning system is dangerous
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In leak investigation, tech giants are caught between courts and customers
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Heat List - Chicago PD automated policing program got this man shot twice
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Censorship, surveillance, and profits: A hard bargain for Apple in China
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EFF Surveillance Self-Defense - Privacy breakdown of mobile phones
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Academic surveillance software company Proctorio is suing a researcher critical of them, seeking to obtain private communications
@Ian Linkletter: Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.On the eve of the BC Supreme Court hearing to dismiss their lawsuit, Proctorio has applied for a court order allowing them to pry into my PRIVATE communications.Our response: https://t.co/jJdQ47P8Pe pic.twitter.com/leCr8yevsx
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Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments
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I spent a year deleting my address online, then it popped up on Bing
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Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls
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Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
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How the US military buys location data from ordinary smartphone apps, including a Muslim prayer app with over ninety-eight million downloads
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Time to pardon Edward Snowden?
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Palantir, Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?
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Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
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Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
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The pandemic is no excuse to surveil students
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
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Planet of cops
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Data isn't just being collected from your phone. It's being used to score you
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
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Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals
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Bill requires employers to keep implanted microchips voluntary for workers
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We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
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Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet
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Here are the Minneapolis police's tools to identify protesters
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Employee monitoring software surges as companies send staff home
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