FTC Bans Company and CEO from Surveillance Business over Controversial App
By B.N. Frank Earlier this summer, Activist Post reported about apps that allow companies to collect data on children. The stalkerware app has been allowing…
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20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American…
“Medical Drones” Deployed Over Italian Beaches Search For Feverish People
By Tyler Durden In the early days of the virus pandemic, we covered multiple stories involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect…
Delays Aren’t Good Enough—Apple Must Abandon Its Surveillance Plans
By Cindy Cohn Apple announced today that it would “take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements” to a program…
Apple Delays Controversial Child Abuse iPhone Spying Program After Backlash
By Tyler Durden After major backlash at the possibility of big brother-esque monitoring of everything you do – ironically juxtaposed against an entire advertising strategy…
Police Use Drones To Listen To Protesters, Break Windows And Answer 911 Calls
By MassPrivateI Here is a collection of drone police videos that show just how far we’ve moved into the total robotic surveillance state. Police do…
COVID Mania: Washington State High School Students Given Ankle Bracelets To Track Movements
The parental backlash was fierce, but it appears that it pushed school officials into defensive mode to justify their outrageous decision to put contact tracing…
Victory! Lawsuit Proceeds Against Clearview’s Face Surveillance
By Adam Schwartz Face surveillance is a growing menace to racial justice, privacy, and free speech. So EFF supports laws that ban government use of…
The Internet of Bodies Ends Bodily Autonomy
By Matt Our interconnected globalized world runs on the Internet. Not that long ago, connecting to the Internet required accessing a computer that was physically…
Planned Expansion of Facial Recognition by US Agencies Called “Disturbing”
By Julia Conley Digital rights advocates reacted harshly Thursday to a new internal U.S. government report detailing how ten federal agencies have plans to greatly…
TSA Controls Public Transit: Orders Americans To Wear Masks On Buses And Trains
By MassPrivateI For years, Edward Hasbrouck of “Papers Please” has been sounding the alarm over the TSA and DHS. And yours truly has published numerous…
Chicago Inspector General: Police Use ShotSpotter to Justify Illegal Stop-and-Frisks
By Matthew Guariglia and Adam Schwartz The Chicago Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a highly critical report on the Chicago Police Department’s use…
Webcams, Baby Monitors, and More: Flaw on 83 Million Devices Allows Hackers to Eavesdrop and Take Over Devices
By B.N. Frank Internet of Things (IoT) technology has been described as the “Internet of Vulnerable Things” for good reason. So far its vulnerability has…
Jewel v. NSA: Americans (Still) Deserve Their Day in Court
By David Greene With little explanation, the Ninth Circuit today affirmed the district court’s decision dismissing our landmark challenge to the US government’s mass communications…