Public Health by Way of the Surveillance State
By Breeauna Sagdal Background WED. May 01, 2024, four long years after the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak collapsed the economy and global population numbers alike, EcoHealth Alliance…
Privacy
The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy
By Matthew Guariglia, Brendan Gilligan, and Cindy Cohn A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the…
Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each…
Civil rights groups want facial recognition technology banned in New York State
By Joel R. McConvey A group of major civil rights organizations in New York is pushing for a statewide ban on the use of facial…
Indian police adopt facial recognition despite risk of massive data breaches
By Joel McConvey “Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching in real…
Biometrics expand in and beyond airports, even as opponents try to kick them out
By Chris Burt Biometrics for getting through the airport, and in one case beyond it was a common theme in four of the most-read articles…
Combining radio and visual tracking of road vehicles
By Edward Hasbrouck In the latest escalation of surveillance of travelers, data from automated license plate readers (APLRs) is being merged with data from devices…
Pistols drawn as UK surveillance state duels with rights groups
By Joel R. McConvey As the UK pushes forward with digital surveillance projects, the chorus of voices weighing in on the legal, ethical and practical…
T-Mobile, Amazon, and Target hit with facial recognition lawsuits
By Bianca Gonzalez More companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New York’s Biometric…
Wave Goodbye To Another Set Of Freedoms With The New Digital ID
Authored by Graham Young via The Epoch Times, “Papers please” used to be the ostinato of totalitarian systems, at least in the movies. With the…
New SEC Program Gives 3,000 Government Employees Real-Time Access to the Stock Transactions of Millions of Americans
By PPSA Like a gourmand gorging at a banquet table, the government’s growing appetite for expanding surveillance is beginning to get a little hard to…
A new wave of wearable devices will collect a mountain on information on us – we need to get wise about the privacy implications
By Luis Quintero, Stockholm University Web and mobile services try to understand the desires and goals of users by analysing how their interact with their…
NSA “Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet” Warns Ed Snowden
Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive…
UK government rejects calls for clearer facial recognition laws
By Masha Borak Debates continue among British lawmakers on the legality of police deployment of live facial recognition. After the UK Parliament’s Justice and Home…