Red Flag Nation: Anti-Gun Laws, Sanctuary Cities and the Second Amendment
By John W. Whitehead “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and…
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Deadline Looms for Biometric SIM Card Registration in Tanzania
By Amanda Lichtenstein Tanzanian citizens have until January 20, 2020, to register their SIM cards through the new biometric registration system launched by the Tanzanian…
America Is The 4th Worst Abuser Of Biometric Privacy Rights In The World
By MassPrivateI Does anyone really believe America is still the land of the free? Since 9/11, DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and countless other alphabet…
Nullify Government Tyranny: In 2020, Harness the Power of Your Discontent
By John W. Whitehead “The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people. The people are unaware….
2019: Facial Recognition And Corporate Surveillance Become Commonplace
By MassPrivateI 2019 will go down as the year facial recognition and corporate surveillance became commonplace. I wrote approximately thirty-three different facial recognition stories last…
Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review
By Katitza Rodriguez We’ve all heard the expression, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” We might hope that what we do and where we…
Courts Grapple with a Sea Change in Fourth Amendment Law After Carpenter v US: Year in Review 2019
By Jennifer Lynch Last year, the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion in a case we’ve written about a lot, called Carpenter v. United States,…
Fighting Back Against Face Surveillance in the Skies: 2019 Year in Review
By Jason Kelley While cities and municipalities made clear strides to limit the use of face surveillance technology throughout 2019, airlines and government agencies tasked…
NEC Uses Customer Experience Centers To Expand Government-Run Facial Recognition
By MassPrivateI Want to convince our politicians to use facial recognition? How about opening a biometric customer experience center near the Congress and the Senate?…
Airports of the Future: Surveillance by Design
By Edward Hasbrouck As we’ve seen in the ongoing debate over biometric identification of travelers at Sea-Tac Airport, and as we’ve seen before elsewhere, airlines…
Genetic Genealogy Company GEDmatch Acquired by Company With Ties to FBI & Law Enforcement—Why You Should Be Worried
By Jennifer Lynch This week, GEDmatch, a genetic genealogy company that gained notoriety for giving law enforcement access to its customers’ DNA data, quietly informed…
DHS Walks Back Proposed Facial Recognition Exit Scans For Americans Traveling
By Aaron Kesel The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) branch has reversed a previous proposed plan to require all U.S. citizens…
Bill Gates Wants to Export India’s National ID System Around the Globe
By Daniel Taylor It’s not just a social credit score system spreading around the world from China that threatens the free people of the world;…
U.S. Lawmakers Demand Amazon Disclose How Ring Stores Data
By Aaron Kesel U.S. lawmakers are demanding that Amazon tell them more about how Ring, Amazon’s surveillance network, is protecting consumer data. They cited the…