40 States Are Addressing K-12 Data Privacy Laws. Is Yours One of Them?
By B.N. Frank Internet user data collection for the purpose of marketing products and services to users as well as selling their data to third…
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Regulators Haven’t Done Much to Limit Advertising Browser Tracking “akin to a cookie that cannot be deleted.”
By B.N. Frank Data collection for the purpose of marketing more products and services to customers as well as selling customer data to third parties…
“Trickle down” FISA Proceedings Result in Further Revocation of Rights
By Janet Phelan As the country swings further towards despotism, some interesting and telling cases are being filed in the courts, in an effort to…
Supreme Court Sees Nothing Wrong with Prolonged, Warrantless Spying of One’s Home by Police Using Hidden Cameras
By The Rutherford Institute WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stop police from using hidden cameras to secretly and warrantlessly record…
Biometric Security is Becoming Commonplace, But There are Significant Concerns
By Steven Maxwell Biometric security measures are becoming routine. Once considered a futuristic technology — biometrics often featured in science fiction across mediums — iris…
Skynet 2.0: Unstoppable Secret Network Bypasses Internet
By Patrick Wood According to popular tech expert, Rob Braxman, “There’s a secret network in operation today and this network can send centralized commands from…
Facial Recognition Co. Will Have 100B Photos; “supposedly enough to ensure that almost every human will be in its database.”
By B.N. Frank Despite increasing opposition to facial recognition technology, significant risks associated with its use, and lawsuits (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6),…
Cambodia Implements Full Internet Surveillance Through Single National Data Gateway
What Cambodia is implementing today will spread like wildfire as a means to end free speech around the world. This has always been the plan…
Victory! More Lawsuits Proceed Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance
By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, free speech, and information security. So EFF supports bans on government use…
GWU Admits That It Tracked Student, Employee Locations On Campus Without Their Consent
By Alexa Schwerha A George Washington University pilot program ‘used locational data tracked by Wi-Fi access points’ to map student and employee movements on campus….
Another State Files Lawsuit Against Facebook’s Use of Facial Recognition without Obtaining Informed User Consent
By B.N. Frank Even though Meta (formerly Facebook) stopped using facial recognition technology on its platform last year and promised to delete data on over…
Signs that You Are Being Tracked with an Apple AirTag and Tips to Stop It
By B.N. Frank Tracking technology existed before Apple introduced its AirTags. However, AirTags seem to have made it cheaper and easier to stalk unsuspecting people. …
IKE’s Smart City Surveillance Kiosks Installed In Houston
Marketed on the basis of being free and convenient, the IKE kiosks collect data on every person who comes near them, including id’ing your Bluetooth…
Senators Finally Discover That CIA Is Using A Secret Program To Collect Data On American Citizens
In 2015, a CIA whistleblower who actually created “The Hammer”software to spy on foreign terror threats, revealed that the CIA had turned the surveillance weapon…