The Discord Leaks: Justification to Quash Encrypted Messaging?
By Marie Hawthorne On April 13, the FBI took 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jake Teixeira into custody for posting top-secret military documents on a private…
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ChatGPT Introduces Next Level of Satellite Surveillance
By Nicholas West ChatGPT has been taking over the news feed with its revolutionary and frightening ability to bring text production, video, audio and much…
Security Firm Spied on Pipeline Opponents via Aerial Surveillance, Radio Eavesdropping, Social Media Monitoring, Undercover Personnel
By B.N. Frank A growing number of Americans – lawmakers included – are opposed to fuel pipelines of any kind being installed in or near…
Online Security Concerns Shouldn’t Enable a Surveillance State
By Kimberlee Josephson At the 2012 London Olympics, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, crafted the message “This Is For Everyone.” And…
Biometrics Growth Draws Investment in Online ID, Credentials and Law Enforcement
By Chris Burt Huge investments in biometrics for identity verification and ID documents dominated the headlines on Biometric Update this week, with ID.me claiming the…
Biden Looking at Expanding Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks
By Dave DeCamp The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted…
Students and Staff Concerned about 300+ “Mites” with “microphone, infrared sensor, thermometer, and six other sensors” in University Building
By B.N. Frank For those trying to keep up with all the tech being invented to spy on us while wirelessly frying us, here’s an…
FTC Plans to Sue Amazon for Illegally Collecting and Using Kids’ Data through Smart Speakers and Possibly Other Bad Behavior
By B.N. Frank Over the years, countless experts have warned about privacy and cybersecurity risks with all “smart” technology. In regard to “smart” home devices,…
Clearview AI Copied 30B Images Without Users’ Permission from Social Media Sites; Customers Include “more than 3,100 US agencies”
By B.N. Frank Facial recognition and other sources of artificial intelligence (A.I.) technology can be biased, inaccurate, and privacy invasive (see 1, 2, 3, 4,…
Buttigieg: $94M Now to Fund More Data-Farming “Smart City” Projects; $500M over Next 5 Years
By B.N. Frank American opposition to “Smart Cities” and all the costs, privacy violations, environmental, health, and safety risks associated with them has been ongoing…
The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online
By Matt Agorist In an era where the world has become more Orwellian than Orwell himself could have ever imagined, it should come as no…
Facewatch Gets UK Code of Practice Certification for Live Retail Facial Recognition
By Chris Burt Facewatch’s live facial recognition for retail theft prevention has been declared compliant with the UK’s Surveillance Camera Code of Practice (SCCP), the…
NY Red Alert: Recently Passed Bill Clears the Way for a Mandatory Adult Vaccine Database
By Michael Kane Both houses of the New York legislature passed an alarming bill (A4132/S837) on Wednesday. The bill itself is not especially dangerous. What…
Surveillance State: 60% of Americans Think Government Tracks Their Data
By Sophia Naughton Do you ever get that nagging feeling that someone’s watching you? You talk about buying new shoes and the next thing you…