Surveillance & Privacy
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
Documents a surveillance technology company's deployment of networked microphones for mass audio monitoring of public spaces under the… [more]
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ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
ICE acquiring comprehensive personal data including SSNs, ethnicity, and geolocation from Thomson Reuters for mass surveillance of… [more]
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Germany massively expands federal police powers
Expansion of federal police surveillance powers including AI and drone use raises significant dystopian concerns about state monitoring… [more]
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How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Police use of Flock's facial recognition and person-tracking capabilities to surveil individuals based on appearance, race, and clothing… [more]
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Fraud crackdown on Ghana ID cards makes digital checks compulsory - photocopies banned
Mandatory electronic identity verification systems create centralized biometric surveillance infrastructure, enabling mass tracking and… [more]
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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Meta's NameTag face recognition system represents mass biometric surveillance infrastructure with corporate obfuscation about its… [more]
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Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features
Documents widespread surveillance through health wearables with inadequate privacy protections, lack of transparency reports, and… [more]
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Podcast: We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
The Waymo segment describes an autonomous vehicle reporting teenagers to police, exemplifying algorithmic surveillance integration with… [more]
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An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI
While framed as medical innovation, widespread brain-scanning AI technology enables normalized neural surveillance and creates risks of… [more]
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Iran’s Cyberattackers Tracked Phones of U.S. Military Personnel in the Mideast, Data Suggests
Demonstrates advanced state-sponsored surveillance capabilities using cellular signals to track and locate military personnel,… [more]
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LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen
Documents how automated surveillance technology (ALPR) systematically flagged innocent people as suspects, leading to improper… [more]
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What is Japan’s new intelligence agency, and why is Tokyo building it?
Creation of centralized national intelligence apparatus raises concerns about expanded state surveillance capabilities and potential… [more]
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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
Documents expansive aerial surveillance capability deployed by law enforcement in major U.S. city and the data security risks accompanying… [more]
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Company That Bragged It Could Track U.S. Spies Hired to Investigate “Havana Syndrome”
A private surveillance firm with demonstrated capability to track U.S. intelligence officials is now embedded within a Pentagon task… [more]
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AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years
The Flock license plate reader error demonstrates how automated surveillance systems enable state overreach and wrongful police action… [more]
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"We Want Texans to Know Their Rights": Q&A with Mayday Health on the Impact of Surveillance on Abortion Care
Documents weaponization of mass surveillance infrastructure (ALPR cameras, location tracking tools, search history monitoring) by law… [more]
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Poland Sentences Russian Exile to 7 Years in Prison for Spying
Documents surveillance and infiltration of political exile networks by authoritarian state intelligence, demonstrating how regimes monitor… [more]
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A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
Describes mass surveillance infrastructure enabling systematic scanning of private communications despite democratic opposition,… [more]
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Corporate surveillance database tracking and categorizing individuals by sexual orientation and assigning 'risk' ratings represents… [more]
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Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Meta's patented wearable system represents mass surveillance infrastructure combining constant audio/video recording, emotional tracking,… [more]