Greek Police Roll Out Devices That Recognize Faces and Fingerprints
By The World, Public Broadcasting At a time when the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement is under increased scrutiny, Greece is forging…
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Drivers To Be Given Real-Time “Risk Scores” Using Embedded Telematic Surveillance Sensors
By MassPrivateI Gone are the days when insurance companies used race, sex and a person’s age to determine their auto insurance premiums. A new whitepaper…
Activists and Rights Groups Sue Clearview AI, Warning “We Won’t Be Safe” Until Facial Recognition Firm Is Gone
By Brett Wilkins A group of civil liberties advocates and immigrant rights organizations on Tuesday sued Clearview AI in a Northern California court, alleging that…
EFF to Supreme Court: Users Must Be Able to Hold Tech Companies Accountable in Lawsuits When Their Data is Mishandled
Facebook, Google, and Others Want To Make It Harder For Users To Sue Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the Supreme Court to…
Cellphone “Ad Targeting”: All Carriers Do It; T-Mobile Increasing Theirs, Customers to Be Automatically “Opted In”
By B.N. Frank Security experts interviewed earlier this year for a CBS “60 Minutes” segment insisted that “Data is the New Oil.” Privacy invasive data…
Scholars Under Surveillance: How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students
By Dave Maass Hailey Rodis, a student at the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism, was the primary researcher on this report. We…
Google’s Scrapping Third-party Cookies – But Invasive Targeted Advertising Will Live On
By Eerke Boiten, De Montfort University Google has announced plans to stop using tracking cookies on its Chrome browser by 2022, replacing them with a…
Resurrecting the Dead … Digitally: One Step Closer to the “Singularity”
By Robert Wheeler In 2017, Microsoft revealed it had patented a “chatbot” that could digitally resurrect the dead if actually built. The chatbot uses AI…
Police Departments Use “Citigraf” To Surveil Everyone, Even School Kids
By MassPrivateI Five years ago, law enforcement asked Genetec, a company closely associated with Homeland Security, to help them develop a public surveillance program which…
Minneapolis Bans Government Use of Facial Recognition
By Michael Maharrey Last month, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed an ordinance banning government use of facial recognition in the city. The growing movement…
Swiss Researchers Develop Wearable Microchip that Eliminates Bodily Privacy Once and for All
By Phillip Schneider A group of Swiss scientists developed a wearable microchip which sits on the skin throughout the day and records hormone levels via…
Local Police Departments To Receive Drones With “Most Advanced AI Ever”
In anticipation of wide acceptance by local law enforcement, Skydio has already achieved a $1 billion valuation with venture capital injections. This drone-based surveillance will…
Officials in Baltimore and St. Louis Put the Brakes on Persistent Surveillance Systems Spy Planes
By Nathan Sheard Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO, have a lot in common. Both cities suffer from declining populations and high crime rates. In…
Facebook Considering Facial Recognition for its Smart Glasses
BGR Facebook is considering adding facial recognition support to its augmented reality glasses. The company is looking into the legal and privacy issues around allowing…