By B.N. Frank Opposition to costly, privacy-invasive, and hazardous utility “smart” meters – electric, gas, and water – has been worldwide since they started being…
By Chris Burt Some security personnel and private staff at airports in India have been capturing air travelers’ face biometrics to enroll them in the…
By Joel R. McConvey The question of how to train face biometrics algorithms often comes with concerns about consent in the use of publicly available…
By Federico Cugurullo, Trinity College Dublin You are walking back home. Suddenly the ground seems to open and a security drone emerges, blocking your way…
By Joel R. McConvey Following the launch of the World ID 2.0 digital identity passport in December 2023, which added face biometrics for verification, Worldcoin…
By B.N. Frank Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technologies have been associated with mass surveillance stealing passwords eliminating human jobs and making errors that can threaten human…
By Bianca Gonzalez In Albuquerque, New Mexico, officials are seeking additional funding to support the city’s real-time crime center, which has seen a number of…
By Andrew Crocker Last week, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated a defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination when they presented testimony about…
By Maryam Henein READ: Dr. Google Will See You Now (Part 1) Deep State: Deep Data The world’s most precious asset today is no longer…
By Jennifer Lynch Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “Location History” data. These…
Submitted by Gun Owners of America, What do fishing, Three Letter Agencies, and gun rights all have in common? Well, thanks to a little-known case…
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…
By Bert Olivier If you live in a Chinese city, or even in London, you are probably so used to surveillance cameras all around you…
By Lars Erik Holmquist, Nottingham Trent University Google has launched Gemini, a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can seemingly understand and talk intelligently about…