Google Admits That “Others” Can Access The Camera On Samsung & Android Smartphones
By Alanna Ketler The Facts: Hackers have successfully been able to access the front facing cameras on Google and Samsung phones without permission from the…
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Spain To Track Every Smartphone Across Country In Controversial Study
By Tyler Durden Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) will begin tracking smartphone locations of millions of people this week in preparation for the 2021 census,…
U.S. Lawmakers Demand Amazon Disclose How Ring Stores Data
By Aaron Kesel U.S. lawmakers are demanding that Amazon tell them more about how Ring, Amazon’s surveillance network, is protecting consumer data. They cited the…
Patriot Extension, sElection Blackout, Thumbprint Streaming
By corbettreport Welcome back to #NewWorldNextWeek – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in…
Victory: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password
By Andrew Crocker The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a forceful opinion today holding that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects individuals from being…
Are Americans Starting To Recognize the Surveillance State?
By The Conscious Resistance Derrick Broze goes over a new report released by Pew Research Center which claims a strong majority of Americans believe they…
House Lawmakers Extend Section 215 into Next Year Even Though They Had Years to Stop Illegal Overcollection of Americans’ Sensitive Data
By India McKinney With federal agencies set to run out of money this week, House lawmakers today passed a short-term funding bill that contained a…
EFF, Antivirus Companies, and Human Rights Groups Launch Coalition to Combat Stalkerware
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Kaspersky, Operation Safe Escape and seven other organizations today launched the Coalition Against Stalkerware to unite and mobilize security software…
One Bad Apple? Over 1,000 Cops Caught Illegally Accessing Police Database to Stalk Citizens
By Jack Burns California — In what police accountability activists are claiming is not an isolated incident, more than 1,000 law enforcement officers accessed the…
Google Faces Antitrust Probes By 48 States And DOJ — Use Presearch
By Aaron Kesel Google is facing an antitrust violation investigation into its practices of its search and Android software in 48 states, Puerto Rico and…
CA Residents Don’t Want Data Collecting Environmentally Unfriendly “Smart” Street Lights. Do You?
By B.N. Frank There’s no doubt that street lights are a good thing. But LED and “Smart” street lights are often expensive AND designed with…
Facebook App Is Secretly Accessing iPhone Users’ Camera
By Mac Slavo While unsuspecting iPhone users read their daily dose of mainstream media news, the Facebook app is secretly accessing the camera on their…
Google Has Its Eyes On Our Health and Banking Data — Project Nightingale and Project Cache
By Aaron Kesel There has been serious backlash against Google for hoarding health data of 50 million Americans through Project Nightingale. The once social media…
NSA Official Refuses to Reveal the Success – or Failure – of Phone Surveillance
By Joe Wolverton, II Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee from both sides of the aisle are questioning the necessity of renewing one of the…