RCMP Admits They Hack Canadians’ Devices to Spy on Them
By Keean Bexte In a breathtaking admission, the RCMP say they’ve secretly used spyware on Canadians’ devices to get audio and visual recordings of Canadians…
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$335M for Border, Critical Infrastructure Might Be “combination of a virtual wall and barriers”; Mobile Towers, Sensors, etc. (Arizona)
By B.N. Frank Virtual barriers may sound great in theory. However, everything operating wirelessly is vulnerable to hacking (see 1, 2, 3, 4) and also…
2700+ American Police and Fire Departments Are Using Amazon Ring’s Neighbors App for Investigations (Charts Included)
By B.N. Frank Despite accuracy risks and privacy concerns, a growing number of American police departments are using various technologies to investigate crimes. This includes…
Everybody’s Guilty: To The Police State, We’re All Criminals Until We Prove Otherwise
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. Thompson The burden of…
Supreme Court Refuses to Limit Warrantless Surveillance
By Michael Maharrey According to the Supreme Court, the legality of NSA mass surveillance can’t even be legally challenged. This was the message the Court…
Fabric That Can “hear” Your Heartbeat Developed by MIT Scientists
By Study Finds Fabric that can “hear” one’s heartbeat via high-tech fibers has been developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The tech…
Hundreds of Florida Police Departments Participate in a Statewide Facial Recognition Program
By B.N. Frank Despite increasing worldwide opposition to facial recognition technology, significant risks associated with it, and lawsuits filed against its use (see 1, 2,…
Big Banker Brother: Deutsche Bank Eavesdropping On Employees With Surveillance App
By Tyler Durden After a series of scandals – including 1MDB, fired managers who expensed strip club receipts or texted colleagues pictures of S&M sessions,…
Covid Surveillance Tech Remains Open to Exploitation
By Ken Macon Governments and private companies can still abuse all of the data they collected in the name of Covid. During the pandemic, governments…
Signed as Law: Arizona Prohibits Warrantless Access to Prescription Databases
By Michael Maharrey Last week, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill into law that will require state and federal law enforcement officers to get…
Signed as Law: Colorado Limits Government Use of Facial Recognition
By Mike Maharrey Last week, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill that places some limits on the use of facial recognition technology. The new…
How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data
By Bennett Cyphers Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to…
Digital ID Companies Thrived During the Pandemic. Only Now Are Their Privacy Claims Being Challenged.
By Didi Rankovic One of the pandemic “winners” – a member of a large group of companies that appeared and grew exponentially to serve the…
Apparently, the WEF Wants to Track Our Children with RFID Tags
By Jeremiah Johnson You are all well-aware of the RFID chips they’ve been using for some time in our products, ranging from foodstuffs to electronic…