New Home “Amazon Experience Centers” Are Really Amazon Home Surveillance Centers
By MassPrivateI For those of you who miss the good old days when government spies used to bug people’s homes, I give you “Amazon Experience…
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VICTORY! Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by…
Google is Secretly Harvesting “Detailed” Health Data From Millions of Americans, Report Reveals
By Eoin Higgins A “bombshell” new report from The Wall Street Journal describes a secret project from Google and healthcare giant Ascension to store data on millions…
DHS Expects To Have The Biometrics Data of 259 Million People by 2022
By Mac Slavo The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expects to have face, fingerprint, and iris scans of at least 259 million people in…
PBS Frontline: “In The Age of AI” Provides a Stark Look of How Tech Companies Have Misused Public Trust and Continue to Do So
By B.N. Frank You won’t see cell phones or personal computers much in movies or TV shows until the late 1990s because most people didn’t…
DNA Dragnets are Here: New Precedent for Government Access?
By Michael Boldin Privacy experts are saying a warrant in Florida to allow police to search a massive DNA database could act as a new…
Facebook Communications Leaked Antitrust Behaviors, Admits 100 Developers Had Access To User Data
By Aaron Kesel Facebook states that even after the company locked down its Groups’ application programming interface (API) last year, some app developers retained improper…
Surveillance Capitalism And Social Media Surveillance In America
By MassPrivateI Freedom House warns that mass social media surveillance is growing. “Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their…
“Bathroom Big Brother”: Schools Are Using an App to Track Students’ Restroom Time
By Dagny Taggart There is no doubt we are living in increasingly Orwellian times. Most of us are not surprised when it is revealed that…
REVEALED: The Global Spy Network That Controls Us All
By Suzi 3D This is vital information: Suzie visually maps out the “intelligence empire” run by the NSA and explains it in an easy-to-understand way….
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police
By MassPrivateI Smart city surveillance is much worse than anyone could have imagined. Two years ago, I revealed how a CIA “signature school” was installing…
ACLU Sues FBI And Other Agencies, Defending Privacy Rights Of Americans Against Facial Recognition
By Aaron Kesel The ACLU has sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other federal agencies, making claims that the government is improperly withholding…
We’re Being Blinded to the Danger of Facial Recognition
By Michael Maharrey We’ve become increasingly comfortable with facial recognition technology. We use it to unlock our phones and to skip the security line at…
Congress, Remember the 4th Amendment? It’s Time to Stop the U.S.-UK Agreement.
By Joe Mullin Unless Congress stops it, foreign police will soon be able to collect and search data on the servers of U.S. Internet companies….