Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
By MassPrivateI It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that…
Privacy
Victory! Individuals Can Force Government to Purge Records of Their First Amendment Activity
By Aaron Mackey The FBI must delete its memo documenting a journalist’s First Amendment activities, a federal appellate court ruled this week in a decision…
Baltimore Governor’s Three Year Plan To Use Police Surveillance Planes To Monitor The Public
By MassPrivateI Americans have never seen such a blatant and misleading excuse to use surveillance planes to spy on everyone quite like what is happening…
Airbus Planes to Track Every Movement You Make – Including Bowel
By B.N. Frank If the 60 Minutes Australia report about contaminated air making passengers and pilots sick wasn’t enough to make you stop flying, this…
Musicians Team Up With Fans And Fight For The Future To Ban Facial Recognition Technology At Concerts
By Aaron Kesel Several musicians and festivals are coming together to call to an end to concert promoters using facial recognition at venues and music…
Victory! California Senate Votes Against Face Surveillance on Police Body Cams
By Haley Tsukayama The California Senate listened to the many voices expressing concern about the use of face surveillance on cameras worn or carried by…
Danger! Facial Recognition Coming This Holiday Season!
By Jason Bermas The big PR push for smart home tech is rolling out en masse as we near the holiday season. For some reason,…
Google Nest Is Censorship & Surveillance In Your Home
By Mac Slavo Google wants you to bring Big Brother into the privacy of your home with its Google Nest surveillance system. Google’s Nest Hub…
Massive 30 State, Real-Time License Plate (ALPR) Database Revealed
By MassPrivateI Our worst fears about Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) are much worse than we could have imagined. Two months ago, I warned everyone…
Americans Deserve Their Day in Court About NSA Mass Surveillance Programs
By David Greene EFF continues our fight to have the U.S. courts protect you from mass government surveillance. Today in our landmark Jewel v. NSA…
State AGs Unveil Sweeping Antitrust Probe Against Google On Steps Of The Supreme Court
By Tyler Durden In the latest legal push that could ultimately result in the break-up of one of the world’s largest tech firms, a bipartisan…
Zao’s Deepfake Face-swapping App Shows Uploading Your Photos is Riskier Than Ever
By Alexandros Antoniou, University of Essex The latest photo app craze can make you look like a movie star. Zao uses artificial intelligence to replace…
It’s Official: US Visa Can Be Denied If You or Your Friends Are Critical of American Policies
By Philip Giraldi There have been several interesting developments in the United States government’s war on free speech and privacy. First of all, the Department…
HUGE Facebook Data Leak 400 Million Phone Numbers In The Blink Of An Eye
By Jason Bermas It’s scandal after scandal and leak after leak at Facebook. Jason Bermas breaks down the latest reveal that AT LEAST 419 million…