The Navy Bought “Global” Surveillance Data Through Adtech Company Owned by Military Contractor
By Joseph Cox This article was produced with support from The Capitol Forum. A section of the Navy bought access to a tool that gave…
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AI Cameras Took Over One Small American Town — Now They’re Everywhere
By Joseph Cox Spread across four computer monitors arranged in a grid, a blue and green interface shows the location of more than 50 different…
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
By Joseph Cox In a bombshell report, an oversight body for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs…
Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype — Microsoft Is In No Rush to Fix It
By Joseph Cox Hackers are able to grab a target’s IP address, potentially revealing their general physical location, by simply sending a link over the…
The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect “Sentiment and Emotion”
By Joseph Cox Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security, has bought millions of dollars worth of software from a…
Antivirus Software Harvests “Every Search, Every Click, Every Buy, On Every Site”
By Joseph Cox, Vice Note: This article has been updated to reflect a comment from Sephora stating that “Sephora is not a client and has…