Woman Arrested for Tracking Boyfriend with AirTag and Murdering Him
By B.N. Frank To be fair, tracking technology did exist before Apple introduced its AirTags (see 1, 2). Nevertheless, AirTags have been associated with at…
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City Council Delays ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection System Renewal & Expansion Vote; “Several concerns have been raised”
By B.N. Frank Despite inaccuracies and high costs as well as privacy and safety concerns, ShotSpotter (see 1, 2) and other gunshot detection technology continue…
Company Broke Law; Misled App Users Who “had their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes of every day”
By B.N. Frank Collecting individuals’ personal data (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), images (see 1, 2, 3, 4), and…
CBDCs And The Fed
By Kate Wand The director of the IMF and any number of central bankers met in Davos last week to discuss their plans to set…
San Francisco Police Nailed for Violating Public Records Laws Regarding Face Recognition and Fusion Center Documents
By Dave Maas By unanimous vote, San Francisco’s public records appeals body ruled last night that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) violated state and…
Lawsuits Increase Against Companies that Collect “Voiceprints” (Amazon, American Airlines, Google, McDonald’s)
By B.N. Frank Collecting individuals’ personal data (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), images (see 1, 2, 3, 4),…
Community Activists Reach Settlement With Marin County Sheriff for Unlawfully Sharing Drivers’ Locations with Out-Of-State and Federal Agencies
By EFF SAN FRANCISCO — Community activists in Northern California today announced a settlement in their lawsuit against the County of Marin and Marin County…
New Google Street View Camera “will make collections easier for partners”; 220+ Billion Images Captured So Far
By B.N. Frank Collecting individuals’ of all ages personal data (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) and images (see…
Surveillance Cameras Use Software Designed by Big Tech That Considers Everyone A “Potential Threat”
By MassPrivateI A recent Fox 5 New York article revealed how Big Tech and law enforcement are working together to identify people who could be a…
Alibaba is Creating a Digital ID Carbon Footprint Tracker
By The Counter Signal Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans bragged that the multi-billion-dollar company was creating a carbon footprint tracker to monitor people’s consumption…
World Bank Adopts Geospatial Surveillance And Tracking
GEMS stands for Geo-Enabling Initiative For Monitoring & Supervision, and it is being adopted by the World Bank to monitor and control people throughout its…
Report: Amazon and 3rd Parties Collect Voice Data from Smart Speakers and “share it with as many as 41 advertising partners”
By B.N. Frank Despite all the bad press reported about Amazon’s smart speaker devices (see 1, 2, 3, 4) – and the high levels of…
25+ Human Rights Group Oppose Zoom’s Planned A.I. Tech “that can scan users’ faces and speed to determine their emotions”
By B.N. Frank Lawsuits have been filed against Zoom for proven privacy and security issues associated with its teleconferencing technology. So far the company has…
Third Party Data Collection, Marketing and Analytics on Popular Websites: Some “logged data keystroke by keystroke”
By B.N. Frank People worldwide are becoming more concerned about all the personal data that is being collected on them and their kids (see 1,…