Facebook Admits to Wrongly Sharing User Data with 3rd Party Apps AGAIN
By B.N. Frank Facebook has been accused of many things including, “Endangering Humanity with the misuse of Artificial Intelligence, Complicity and Aiding in Physical Genocide…
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Apple Privacy Update Shows TikTok Is Harvesting Sensitive Data From Millions Of Users
By John Vibes The social media platform TikTok has quickly become one of the most popular apps in the world over the past two years,…
Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers
By Bennett Cyphers and Karen Gullo COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking…
Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act
By Joe Mullin This month, Americans are out in the streets, demanding police accountability. But rather than consider reform proposals, a key Senate committee is…
Forbes Writer Predicts Rosy Future “Relationships” With Semi-Autonomous Cars
By B.N. Frank AV Experts and Privacy Advocates Predict Otherwise Earlier this month a new study revealed that Automated Vehicles (AVs) were only safer than…
Big Wireless Lobbied Governments to Install 5G for Data Collection and Surveillance — Is Yours One of Them?
By B.N. Frank During his 2019 interview with the New Yorker Magazine, Brig. General Robert S. Spalding talked about how China installed 5G for citizen…
Bill Making It Illegal to Forcefully Microchip Employees Passes in Michigan House
By Elias Marat Lawmakers in Michigan have passed a bill that would make it illegal for employers to force their workers to be tagged with…
Mass-Tracking COVI-PASS Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries
By Raul Diego Through the magic of Internet meme culture, most Millennials will be familiar with the famous opening scene of the 1942 film, Casablanca,…
Social Credit Scores Are Already Here
By Derrick Broze, The Last American Vagabond People around the world are already being judged and denied access to financial services because of their social…
Smart Face Mask Uses Bluetooth to Talk to Phone and Amplify Voice
By B.N. Frank Like cell phone radiation and WiFi, Bluetooth is a form of wireless (microwave) radiation. Doctors and scientists (see 1, 2) have been…
EFF Shares Testimonials from Fitbit Wearers and Asks DOJ to Stop Fitbit-Google Merger
By B.N. Frank There have been news reports about Fitbits shocking wearers as well as causing rashes and other new and scary heath issues. In…
Two Kids Sue Google for Allegedly Collecting Students’ Biometric Data with Their Educational Tools
By B.N. Frank Google is well known already for collecting data on customers with their products and services. This is sometimes referred to as “Surveillance…
The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something
By Andrew Crocker Right now, we rely on secure technologies like never before—to cope with the pandemic, to organize and march in the streets, and…
Victory: Indiana Supreme Court Rules that Police Can’t Force Smartphone User to Unlock Her Phone
By Andrew Crocker In courts across the country, EFF has been arguing that the police cannot constitutionally require you to unlock your phone or give…