Resisting the Menace of Face Recognition
By Adam Schwartz Face recognition technology is a special menace to privacy, racial justice, free expression, and information security. Our faces are unique identifiers, and…
Privacy
U.S. Smart Cities Consortiums Form Partnership; “key challenges include public perceptions around privacy”
By B.N. Frank American opposition to “Smart Cities” and all the risks associated with them has been continuous (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Nevertheless, proponents…
Crowd-Sourced Suspicion Apps Are Out of Control
By Matthew Guariglia Technology rarely invents new societal problems. Instead, it digitizes them, supersizes them, and allows them to balloon and duplicate at the speed…
On Global Encryption Day, Let’s Stand Up for Privacy and Security
By Joe Mullin At EFF, we talk a lot about strong encryption. It’s critical for our privacy and security online. That’s why we litigate in…
Police Can’t Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused
By Andrew Crocker The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide…
Delta and TSA Launch New Biometric “Digital Identity Experience” at Atlanta Hub
By Allison Fox The airline is implementing a “digital identity experience” at its hub in Atlanta, offering customers with TSA PreCheck and a Delta SkyMiles number the chance to pass…
After Backlash Over $600 IRS Bank Surveillance, Democrats Revise Proposal
By Tyler Durden Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to release a reworked version of a Biden administration proposal to surveil US bank accounts – after…
New Government App Will Provide Access to Public Services but Questions Around Privacy and Design Remain
By Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick The UK government has promised that its new app, expected to launch in late 2022, will be a one-stop…
Man Facing 30 Years for Shooting Down Police Drone — “Harassing Him” on His Property
By Matt Agorist Lake County, FL — Wendell Doyle Goney, 51, a “Florida man,” is facing 30 years behind bars after he was charged this…
Flight of the Concord Drones
By Kenny Gutierrez, EFF Bridge Fellow The City Council of Concord, California, is tone deaf to community concerns regarding a proposed police Unmanned Aerial Surveillance…
Come Back with a Warrant: Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
By Chao Liu and Sophia Cope We do not lose our constitutional rights at the border. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), however, believes…
Meet The Creator Of The New Privacy Phone Challenging The “Privacy vs Rights” False Dichotomy
By The Last American Vagabond Joining Ryan Cristián today is Ramiro Romani, co-creator of the Above Phone. This is a device (much more than just…
Kenyan Government’s Use of Surveillance Technologies to Tackle COVID-19 Raises Human Rights Concerns
By Cecilia Maundu In August this year, misconfigured power apps from Microsoft led more than a thousand web apps to mistakenly expose 38 million records…
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Tracks Everything
GEOINT is the Technocrat science of tracking everything on earth; living or inanimate, moving or stationary. An official US government agency was created to serve…