By Aaron Kesel Activist Post previously reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wanted to develop advanced facial recognition technology that scans the faces of travelers as…
By Gennie Gebhart In his latest announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embraces privacy and security fundamentals like end-to-end encrypted messaging. But announcing a plan is…
By Press For Truth It’s no longer a “conspiracy theory” that big brother is watching everything we do; in fact, this is now common knowledge,…
By B.N. Frank Duke Energy has installed – and continues to install – utility AMI “Smart” Meters in 6 states. Customers in all 6 states…
By Tyler Durden (ZH) — A leak of internal Facebook documents reveals that the company has conducted a global lobbying campaign to against data privacy legislation, targeting politicians…
By B.N. Frank Many Americans don’t trust Automated Vehicles (AVs) and other automated technology because: There are too many incidents of how autonomous technology (vehicles,…
By Cory Doctorow German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences…
By Gennie Gebhart When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double…
By John W. Whitehead “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your…
By Filip Stojanovski What do two Czech state entities, one Silicon Valley giant and one vacuum cleaner have in common? They were all winners in…
By Aaron Kesel Facebook is being accused by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) of privacy violations and is in the midst of negotiating over a…
By MassPrivateI The die has been cast, whether it is digital drivers licenses, digital license plates, license plate readers or facial recognition cameras. Everyone from…
By Aaron Leibowitz for ProPublica Illinois, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ Chicago This is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ Chicago. In January 2017, after…
By Dagny Taggart Unconstitutional gun law ideas seem to spread from one state to another like some kind of insidious virus. Late last year, an…