By Debbie Lerman I feel scared. Very scared. Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here….
By Jon Miltimore The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the bureau violated the constitutional rights of safe-deposit box holders whose property was…
By Masha Borak Belize is moving towards building its national identification system and formulating a strategy for biometric data with future plans for digitizing public…
By Masha Borak As facial recognition surveillance spreads, researchers and privacy-minded individuals have been trying to come up with ways to thwart the technology, using…
By Jim Nash Those who see face surveillance by law enforcement as a danger to civil rights keep hoping that their warnings will stir the…
By B.N. Frank Concerned about how your personal information and that of your family members is being collected, analyzed, shared and/or sold? Did you know…
By Jim Nash Three school systems, two in the U.S. and the other in Brazil are installing or updating biometric security system for students. The…
By Saira Hussain and Matthew Guariglia A new report reveals that in just three months, from July 1 to September 30, 2023, the San Francisco…
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the FBI acted unlawfully in March 2021, when it raided hundreds of…
By Mac Slavo A new Russian city called Dobrograd is being built in the Vladimir Region of Russia. It is being built according to the…
By Masha Borak Starting in May 2025, German authorities will accept only biometric photographs for official documents, including IDs, passports and immigration documents. The timeline…
By Jim Nash A U.S. privacy case in state court that accuses a Chinese surveillance camera maker of “corporate voyeurism” has been narrowed to the…
By Matthew Guariglia Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police’s warrantless requests for footage from Ring users. This is a victory…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. Thompson According to the…