Theme Park Operator That Collected Customers’ Fingerprint Data to Pay $36M
By B.N. Frank Illinois has a state law that protects residents’ biometric information. Six years ago a federal lawsuit was filed against Facebook for violating…
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The State Convinced People It Was Dangerous for Them Not to be Watched — Now Many Believe Surveillance Tech Is “for our own good”
By Aden Tate Yet another consequence of 2020 was the growth of public surveillance (aka Big Brother state) disguised under the umbrella of COVID. When…
Facial Recognition Apps for Anyone Who Wants to Identify People Without Their Knowledge or Consent: What Couldn’t Go Wrong?
By B.N. Frank The use of Facial Recognition technology continues to be controversial. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s privacy invasive and it’s NOT always accurate. …
Smart Tech Expert: Future “Smart Homes” Will Include Sensors in Clothing, Furniture, etc. Connected to Hazardous “Smart” Meters
By B.N. Frank It’s amusing as well as alarming when industry folks go to great lengths to depict “Smart Homes” as something desirable now and…
Lawsuit Accuses Digital Recognition Network of Secretly Collecting Billions of License Plates
By Derrick Broze A recently filed lawsuit accuses Digital Recognition Network of covertly collecting vehicle data on millions of Americans and selling it for a…
TikTok Goes For A Biometric Grab Of 66 Million US Users
By Tyler Durden TikTok quietly rolled out its new US privacy policy earlier this week, allowing the Chinese company to automatically “collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from…
Make Way for the Snitch State: The All-Seeing Fourth Branch of Government
By John W. Whitehead “It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the…
Wearable “Solutions” and the Internet of Incarceration
By Jeremy Lofredo In recent years, calls for radical prison reform and a solution to the U.S.’ opioid crisis have come to permeate national politics…
CBS 60 Minutes: American Police Departments Being Sued for Wrongful Arrests Based on Facial Recognition
By B.N. Frank There’s a lot NOT to love about facial recognition. For one – it’s not always accurate, especially for those who are not…
CLEAR’s “A Day Of Families” Event Shamelessly Exploits COVID Family Separations
By MassPrivateI The mainstream media (MSM) is going out of its way to promote facial recognition, private corporations and the pandemic. ABC, CBS, NBC and The DailyMail fawned…
Apple Files Patent to Improve Face ID for Users Wearing Masks
By Truth Unmuted While the world is engulfed in a myriad of controversies surrounding coronavirus, vaccines, threats of war, cyber attacks, hyper-inflation, racial tensions, etc.,…
AI is Increasingly Being Used to Identify Emotions – Here’s What’s at Stake
By Alexa Hagerty, University of Cambridge and Alexandra Albert, UCL Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial…
Lawsuit Accuses Northwestern University of Unlawfully Collecting Students’ Biometric Data
By Jackson Walker An anonymous student is suing Northwestern University for unlawfully collecting students’ biometric data through online test proctoring tools according to a class action…
Is the Technocracy Coming to Mexico?
By Derrick Broze Recent announcements by the Mexican government make it clear that there are plans to introduce previously unseen surveillance technology to the Latin…