Surveillance & Privacy
Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?
Documents widespread deployment of automated license plate readers by local police in coordination with ICE to systematically track and… [more]
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Russia used Cellebrite tool to jail activist after the company claimed to have ended contract
Documents corporate surveillance tools used by authoritarian regime to jail political activists despite manufacturer claims of compliance… [more]
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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
Legislation requiring age checks for online access creates infrastructure for mass surveillance and tracking of Americans' web browsing… [more]
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The Intercept Sues to Uncover Secretive Government Anti-Protester Database
Documents reveal a secretive government database targeting protesters and activists for surveillance and travel restrictions, representing… [more]
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🦅 Domestic Spying Takes an L | EFFector 38.12
Documents widespread warrantless domestic surveillance of millions of Americans through Section 702, a law repeatedly reauthorized despite… [more]
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Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II
Article documents real instances of corporate surveillance infrastructure (MSG facial recognition dossiers on activists, data center… [more]
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Why are there holiday delay warnings over the EU's new border system?
The EU's Entry/Exit System represents infrastructure for mass surveillance and biometric data collection of travelers across 29 countries,… [more]
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Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
Corporate venue deployed mass biometric surveillance and compiled dossiers on activists opposing the technology, exemplifying surveillance… [more]
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Meta’s Very Own Smart Glasses Go on Sale Today for $299
Smart glasses with always-on cameras and microphones represent ambient surveillance infrastructure that normalizes continuous recording… [more]
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Why is Israel being accused of meddling in Colombia presidential election?
Allegations of digital manipulation in elections and foreign interference represent concerns about surveillance-based electoral tampering… [more]
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Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones
Government-mandated app that reinstalls itself on federal workers' phones represents involuntary surveillance infrastructure and erosion… [more]
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EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners!
Documents how major tech corporations and EU governments conspire to preserve invasive cookie tracking mechanisms disguised as user… [more]
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Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Meta's employee-tracking program exemplifies corporate surveillance infrastructure and the normalization of invasive monitoring systems,… [more]
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Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Dystopian-relevant: Corporate mass surveillance of employees through keystroke tracking and biometric data collection for AI model… [more]
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Tight security as Indian students resit medical exam after alleged paper leak
Dystopian surveillance infrastructure: millions of students subjected to biometric checks and physical frisking with military enforcement… [more]
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Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
Multiple dystopian elements present: facial recognition deployment in gay bars enabling targeted surveillance and potential… [more]
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Texas govt data breach exposes over 3 million driver’s licenses
A vendor failure at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department exposed personal information for over three million individuals, including… [more]
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EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border
Government deployment of racially-biased facial age estimation technology on asylum-seeking children represents mass biometric… [more]
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Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill
Bill C-22 represents a significant dystopian threat through mandated encryption backdoors, mass metadata retention, and unaccountable… [more]
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The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
UK government deploying known-flawed facial recognition technology for age verification of asylum-seekers despite internal evidence of… [more]