Are We Being Watched?
Authored by Freddie Attenborough via The Critic A shadowy state agency with no statutory footing, previously used to monitor perfectly lawful yet dissenting speech during…
Privacy
To Fight Surveillance Pricing, We Need Privacy First
By Tori Noble Digital surveillance is ubiquitous. Corporate snoops collect information about everything we do, everywhere we go, and everyone we communicate with. Then they compile…
Customs Officers Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone at JFK
By Edward Hasbrouck Judge Nina Morrison of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island)…
The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It’s Our Last Chance To Stop It
By Joe Mullin The Senate just passed a bill that will let the federal and state governments investigate and sue websites that they claim cause…
5th Circuit Reads Travel Blacklists into Federal law
By Edward Hasbrouck In a decision issued last week, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has offered the first appellate opinion on whether there is…
Techno-Tyranny of Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ is ‘1984’ for 2024
By Paul McDonnold When I first saw the film Brazil (1985) a decade after its release, I was decidedly underwhelmed. The pacing was slow, the…
Poisoning Your Data – “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report Do you use any big tech service or mainstream website? Do you like, comment or subscribe on social media. Do you…
Facial recognition and AI monitoring deployed in India’s largest railway network
By Joel R. McConvey India’s rail networks are adding AI and facial recognition systems to their stations, part of a growing biometrics and surveillance market…
USPS Caught Sharing Customer Addresses With Tech Giants, Including Meta And LinkedIn
By Tyler Durden Ever wonder how sometimes digital ads know what you’re discussing in the privacy of your own home…and even sometimes what you’re thinking? …
Modern Cars Can Be Tracking Nightmares. Abuse Survivors Need Real Solutions.
By Hayley Tsukayama, Eva Galperin, and Catalina Sanchez The amount of data modern cars collect is a serious privacy concern for all of us. But…
Opting out of Facial Recognition at Airports
By Edward Hasbrouck Next week the Algorithmic Justice League will be launching an awareness and sousveillance campaign focused on the use of facial recognition in…
AT&T Reveals Hackers Stole “Nearly All” Records Of Customer Calls, Texts
By Tyler Durden Surprise. Surprise. AT&T has revealed a massive hack of customer data for the second time this year. This latest batch of customer…
Man Accused of Setting Up ‘Evil Twin’ WiFi at Airports
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff After the arrest of a man accused of setting up “evil twin” WiFi networks in multiple airports to steal people’s…
Victory! Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data
By Hudson Hongo For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California illegally sharing drivers’ location data with anti-abortion states, putting…