By Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and David Hastings Dunn, University of Birmingham The death of a spy is rarely newsworthy, due to the secrecy…
By Anthony Kimery A required audit of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) efforts to integrate AI such as biometric…
By Derrick Broze A federal watchdog has released a report detailing how federal law enforcement agencies are using more than 20 types of surveillance technologies…
By StudyFinds Every time you walk down a city street, electronic eyes are watching. From security systems to traffic cameras, surveillance is ubiquitous in modern…
By Karen Gullo Most UN Member States, including the U.S., are expected to support adoption of the flawed UN Cybercrime Treaty when it’s scheduled to…
By Derrick Broze Why are so many freedom loving, privacy aware people using a military contractor’s satellite service, and turning a blind eye to the…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when you’re awake He knows when you’ve been bad or…
By Lu-Hai Liang A United States sheriff’s office on the border with Canada has become one of the first to implement iris biometric identification technology…
By Edward Hasbrouck In response to a scathing report by its Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the US Department of Justice has directed the…
By Derrick Broze A small but growing number of private companies selling digital tools to hack smartphones and messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Signal, are…
By Noortje Marres, University of Warwick You’d probably notice if the car that cut you off or pulled up beside you at a light didn’t…
The genie is out of the bottle, granting wishes to the Technocrats of the world. Like a “Person of Interest” episode, drones can use high-resolution…
By Tyler Durden A swarm of mysterious drones circled parts of Morris County, New Jersey, during the overnight hours, drawing the attention of local law…
By Edward Hasbrouck There are elections today in the USA. But we don’t need to know their outcome to predict many of the issues that…