Companies Increasingly Using “Tattleware” To Monitor Employees Working From Home
By Tyler Durden As waves of Covid-19 continue to dictate working (or not working) habits for millions of Americans, employers have been turning to digital…
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Geofence Warrants Threaten Civil Liberties and Free Speech Rights in Kenosha and Nationwide
By Matthew Guariglia, Mukund Rathi, Houston Davidson, and Jennifer Lynch In the days following the police shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23, 2020, hundreds…
Pay-by-Palm: Just an Innocent Technology to Make Life Easier?
By Aden Tate Looks like the folks at Amazon have taken up palm reading with the recent rollout of Amazon One, a pay-by-palm technology. Don’t like…
LAPD Orders Cops To Collect Social Media Data On Every Single Person They Stop
By Tyler Durden Los Angeles police officers have been directed to collect social media information on every civilian they interview, including people who haven’t been…
Technocrats Are Determined To Reduce Every Human To A QR Code
Technocracy’s coup d’état, in full swing, fully intends to flip the world into a scientific dictatorship where every human will be tracked, monitored and managed…
License Plate Readers Use Footage From Ring, Smartphones And ATMs To ID Vehicles
By MassPrivateI Flock Safety’s license plate readers can now ID vehicles from any camera source. Basically, Flock Safety has turned every camera in the country…
FTC Bans Company and CEO from Surveillance Business over Controversial App
By B.N. Frank Earlier this summer, Activist Post reported about apps that allow companies to collect data on children. The stalkerware app has been allowing…
Security Researchers Identify Billions of Bluetooth Devices from Popular Vendors as Vulnerable to Hackers
By B.N. Frank Last month, the NSA sent a stern warning to employers that allowing their employees to use Bluetooth, WiFi, and NFC connections was…
“Medical Drones” Deployed Over Italian Beaches Search For Feverish People
By Tyler Durden In the early days of the virus pandemic, we covered multiple stories involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect…
Delays Aren’t Good Enough—Apple Must Abandon Its Surveillance Plans
By Cindy Cohn Apple announced today that it would “take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements” to a program…
Apple Delays Controversial Child Abuse iPhone Spying Program After Backlash
By Tyler Durden After major backlash at the possibility of big brother-esque monitoring of everything you do – ironically juxtaposed against an entire advertising strategy…
Australian Authorities Can Now Legally Change Citizens’ Social Media Posts
By Jeff Thompson If you currently live in Australia, you’re probably already aware that some pretty draconian measures have taken place in the name of…
Police Use Drones To Listen To Protesters, Break Windows And Answer 911 Calls
By MassPrivateI Here is a collection of drone police videos that show just how far we’ve moved into the total robotic surveillance state. Police do…
Victory! Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance
By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, and free speech. So EFF supports laws that ban government use of…