Your Child’s Smart Toy is a Data Scientist — Here’s How It’s Quietly Watching and What it’s Learning
By Study Finds Remember when toys were simple? A stuffed animal was just a stuffed animal, and the only data it collected was the occasional…
Privacy
Backyard Privacy in the Age of Drones
By Hannah Zhao Police departments and law enforcement agencies are increasingly collecting personal information using drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles. In addition to…
Investigations Into Massive National Public Data Breach Heat Up
By Anthony Kimery U.S. lawmakers, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and at least two state attorney generals are investigating the cyberattack on Florida-based National…
Remote Biometric Surveillance and Policing – A New Frame of Reference?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner In surveillance perspective is everything. Your viewpoint affects what you will see and therefore what…
Growing the Surveillance State: Drones, Facial Recognition, AI Enlisted to Fight Crime but at What Cost?
By Jesse Smith Big Brother is at it again. With rising crime as the backdrop, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is growing the surveillance…
The Future of CCTV and Policing
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Last week’s webinar by Public Policy Exchange considered the future of CCTV and related policy…
Facial Recognition Becoming More Common in US Schools
By Chris Burt, Biometric Update Biometric systems for school safety and security continue to gain ground in the U.S., with more rollouts unveiled and a…
Red Alert! Virtually All Of Our Personal Information, Including Social Security Numbers, Has Been Stolen And Posted Online By Hackers
By Michael Snyder Most Americans don’t even realize that virtually all of their personal information has been stolen and posted online for free. The personal…
What Role Will Google’s Eric Schmidt Play in Election 2024?
By Derrick Broze At the end of the day, no matter which corporate party Americans vote for, a Bilderberg-backed candidate will be in the White…
The UN General Assembly and the Fight Against the Cybercrime Treaty
By Katitza Rodriguez The final text of the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime, adopted last Thursday by the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee, is now…
Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional
By Andrew Crocker In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the…
Draft bill allowing German police to search web with facial recognition panned
By Joel R. McConvey Germany is among the first European nations to push at the seams of the AI Act, with a row brewing over…
3 Billion People Exposed In Massive Unreported Data Theft
By Tyler Durden It’s one of the “biggest data breaches ever” and you might be exposed as a result. Background check company Jerico Pictures Inc., which…
You Might Own Nothing Sooner Than You Think
By Aaron Day Imagine a world where ownership is a distant memory, replaced by an eerie semblance of joy in dispossession. In 2016, Klaus Schwab,…