Send Surveillance Robot Dogs to the Pound, Not the Border
By Matthew Guariglia On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, the official research and development arm of the…
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If EARN IT Passes, What Happens On Your iPhone Won’t Stay On Your iPhone
By Jason Kelley Last year, Apple announced a controversial plan to install photo scanning software in every device. Apple has long been seen as a…
Health and Genetic-Testing Websites Allowed Ads to Track Visitors w/o Telling Them; Could Have Exposed Personal Info
By B.N. Frank Data collection for the purpose of marketing more products and services to customers as well as selling customer data to third parties…
Secretary Pete’s Traffic Cameras: Are They Really About Speed Limits?
By Jeff Thompson Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has recently announced that there are too many traffic-caused fatalities throughout the US. The solution? The installation of…
CDC Expands COVID Wastewater Testing and Creates Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
By B.N. Frank In 2020, scientists in the U.S. started collecting and analyzing sewage to track COVID-19 infections (see 1, 2, 3). In December 2021,…
It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
By Joe Mullin People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages—not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and…
Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Limit Warrantless Use of Facial Recognition
By Michael Maharrey MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Feb 2, 2022) – Yesterday, the Alabama Senate unanimously passed a bill that would place limits on law enforcement use…
Atlanta Fusion Center Creates A Massive 30,000 Surveillance Camera Network Targeting Black People
By MassPrivateI A recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution claims the Atlanta Police Department’s Real-Time Crime Center (Fusion Center) has just created a 4,500 real-time camera…
The Government’s Kill Switch for Your Car, Your Freedoms and Your Life
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.”—Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle…
The Vaccine Passport Scheme Goes National One QR Code at a Time
By Jesse Smith The threat of being required to carry a vaccine passport to participate in society is continuing to spread rapidly like an undiagnosed…
Waymo Won’t Share Robotaxi Safety Data Including “secret descriptions of crashes involving its driverless cars”
By B.N. Frank Autonomous personal vehicles, delivery vehicles, and taxis are already being operated and/or tested in some U.S. cities (see 1, 2, 3, 4,…
Some American Schools Have Installed Surveillance Software to Monitor Students’ Emails, Online Chats, and Assignments
By B.N. Frank Some parents are glad that schools are monitoring their kids’ computer activity and some are not. Some parents may not even know…
The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work.
By Joe Mullin This week, the U.K. government launched an unprecedented and deceptive effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They’ve hired a fancy ad agency…
Students Describe Life on Campus Under “Health Surveillance”
By Peter Cordi Campus Reform spoke with students in California and New York who detailed their experiences on campus during the pandemic. The students criticized…