How East Germany’s Stasi Perfected Mass Surveillance
By Andrea Togni The state has a monopoly on violence. However, abusive repression harms government credibility and alienates public support in the long run. A…
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AI Use Grows Among Retail Stores, New York Considers Biometrics for Liquor Sales
By Masha Borak Move over passwords and PINs, retail stores are introducing new tech to help shoppers check out their goods, including biometrics and artificial…
Researchers Reveal How A.I. Can Steal Passwords While You Type
By B.N. Frank Warnings about artificial intelligence (A.I.)’s potential for wreaking havoc on all of our lives are not going away (see 1, 2, 3)….
Sunday Screening: “Riot in the Matrix”
By 21st Century Wire Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. In a world where our personal data is becoming increasingly…
Proposed Cybercrime Treaty’s International Cooperation Provisions Could Let Tyrants Run Amok
By Katitza Rodgriguez This is the third segment in EFF’s series on the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention focusing on Chapter V, International Cooperation. Read Part…
Biometrics Firms Caught in Data Privacy Complaints Turn to Arbitration
By Jim Nash Short of actually winning a biometrics privacy lawsuit in the U.S. states of Illinois and California there seems only one avenue for…
Congress Amended KOSA, But It’s Still A Censorship Bill
By Joe Mullin A key Senate committee voted to move forward one of the most dangerous bills we’ve seen in years: the Kids Online Safety…
Press Freedom Under Fire: Federal Judge Orders Former Fox Reporter To Reveal Sources In Controversial FBI Case
By Tyler Durden A federal judge recently ruled that investigative reporter Catherine Herridge must reveal her sources for an investigative series involving an FBI investigation…
Mexican Presidential Candidate Marcelo Ebrard Announces “Angel Plan” Surveillance State Nightmare
By Derrick Broze Mexican Presidential candidate Marcelo Ebrard recently announced a security plan which calls for using several digital technologies with the potential to create…
From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape
By Nick Corbishley The Home Office is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement….
The Impending Privacy Threat of Self-Driving Cars
By Matthew Guariglia Within a few years, fully self-driving cars have gone from science fiction to a very common reality for people in San Francisco…
US Ambulance Company Adopts Face Biometrics for Patient Identification
By Beverly Crawford-Westre Duality Health, a face biometrics patient identification software provider, and Acadian Ambulance, one of America’s largest privately held medical transportation companies, have…
Battle Over Age Verification Heats Up In Increasingly Censorious US
By Jim Nash Depending on the point of view, online life in the United States is either marching toward safety for children or sliding into…
Automakers Being Investigated for Consumer Data Privacy Violations; “These companies know more about us than we know about ourselves”
By B.N. Frank “Surveillance Capitalism” has been increasing so much over the years that it eventually inspired the saying “Data is the new oil.” Argh! …