Drivers License Data Sold to Businesses, Given to Feds
By Edward Hasbrouck As we start the year of the once-a-decade US Census, it’s an appropriate time to start looking at some of the ways…
Privacy
2.4M Email Addresses, User Names, Home Network Info and More Exposed in “Smart Camera” Data Leak
By B.N. Frank According to countless experts, “Smart” devices are in more danger of being hacked than ever before (see 1, 2,3). Maybe that’s why…
2019: Facial Recognition And Corporate Surveillance Become Commonplace
By MassPrivateI 2019 will go down as the year facial recognition and corporate surveillance became commonplace. I wrote approximately thirty-three different facial recognition stories last…
Ring Camera Cyber-Attacks Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg!
By Jason Bermas Activist Post Editor’s Note: At the same time more government and corporate surveillance continues to be rolled out in various forms, the…
Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review
By Katitza Rodriguez We’ve all heard the expression, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” We might hope that what we do and where we…
Courts Grapple with a Sea Change in Fourth Amendment Law After Carpenter v US: Year in Review 2019
By Jennifer Lynch Last year, the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion in a case we’ve written about a lot, called Carpenter v. United States,…
What’s Your Social Credit Score?
By Truthstream Media We live in a cybernetic society, which is about continuous surveillance, data collection and analysis. The Chinese government has begun to implement…
Foreign Police Want to Bypass Privacy Laws—and Courts—to Get Data from Abroad: Year in Review 2019
By Katitza Rodriguez and Seth Schoen The global nature of the Internet means that police agencies all around the world facing challenges investigating crime when…
Dodging Bullets on the Path to a Decentralized Future: 2019 in Review
By Danny O’Brien The Internet’s decentralized nature has historically been its greatest super-power, granting it the ability to shrug off censors and spies and redistribute…
How China Tracks Everyone And What It Means For All Of Us
By VICE News VICE’s Elle Reeve heads to China to investigate the rise of facial recognition technology — and what that means for all of…
Smart Home Tech, Police, and Your Privacy: Year in Review 2019
By Matthew Guariglia If 2019 confirmed anything, it is that we should not trust the microphones and cameras that large corporations sell us to put…
New Security System Promises Un-hackable Communications
New computer chip enables information to be sent from user to user using a one-time un-hackable communication Technology overcomes major threat of quantum computers, which…
This Story on Smartphone Tracking is the “Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.”
By Jessica Corbett The New York Times on Thursday sparked calls for congressional action by publishing the first article in its “One Nation, Tracked” series,…
Recent High Profile Hacks Haven’t Stopped Amazon, Apple and Google from Working Together to Make Your Home Devices Talk to Each Other
By B.N. Frank Does anyone want to be hacked, spied on, and taunted in their homes by strangers? It continues happening with products manufactured and…