Paris rolls out AI surveillance for Taylor Swift
By Masha Borak Pop superstar Taylor Swift had her concert in Paris guarded by AI-powered video surveillance as the city prepares for heightened security risks…
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Public Health by Way of the Surveillance State
By Breeauna Sagdal Background WED. May 01, 2024, four long years after the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak collapsed the economy and global population numbers alike, EcoHealth Alliance…
The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy
By Matthew Guariglia, Brendan Gilligan, and Cindy Cohn A bombshell report from WIRED reveals that two days after the U.S. Congress renewed and expanded the…
Police in Germany using live facial recognition
By Masha Borak Police in Germany are employing high-definition cameras and live facial recognition to catch suspects, raising legal questions in the wake of the…
Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each…
Civil rights groups want facial recognition technology banned in New York State
By Joel R. McConvey A group of major civil rights organizations in New York is pushing for a statewide ban on the use of facial…
Indian police adopt facial recognition despite risk of massive data breaches
By Joel McConvey “Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching in real…
Combining radio and visual tracking of road vehicles
By Edward Hasbrouck In the latest escalation of surveillance of travelers, data from automated license plate readers (APLRs) is being merged with data from devices…
Pistols drawn as UK surveillance state duels with rights groups
By Joel R. McConvey As the UK pushes forward with digital surveillance projects, the chorus of voices weighing in on the legal, ethical and practical…
War Zone Surveillance Technology Is Hitting American Streets
By Byron Tau At least two Texas communities along the U.S.-Mexico border have purchased technology that tracks people’s locations using data from personal electronics and…
Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?
By Jeffrey A. Tucker They are wearing us down with shocking headlines and opinions. They come daily these days, with increasingly implausible claims that leave…
Wave Goodbye To Another Set Of Freedoms With The New Digital ID
Authored by Graham Young via The Epoch Times, “Papers please” used to be the ostinato of totalitarian systems, at least in the movies. With the…
New SEC Program Gives 3,000 Government Employees Real-Time Access to the Stock Transactions of Millions of Americans
By PPSA Like a gourmand gorging at a banquet table, the government’s growing appetite for expanding surveillance is beginning to get a little hard to…
Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference ……