New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations
New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google on Thursday, saying the tech giant used its educational products to spy on the […]
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NSA spent $100M on phone surveillance program that prompted two unique FBI leads
A multimillion-dollar cellphone surveillance program that sifted through the metadata from millions of individual phone numbers yielded just two unique […]
Scotland Yard makes first arrest using live facial recognition technology
A woman arrested in Westminster, London yesterday has become the first to be apprehended by Metropolitan Police using its facial […]
Congress postponed a vote to extend Patriot Act surveillance programs
Congress has postponed a planned vote to reauthorize controversial surveillance programs. The House Judiciary Committee intended to renew parts of […]
London Police Just Turned On Facial Recognition In One Of The World’s Busiest Shopping Districts
Just across from the Microsoft store on London’s Regent Street, and just outside the entrance to the Oxford Circus tube […]
Predictive policing systems are flawed because they replicate and amplify racism
The AI Now Institute’s Executive Director, Andrea Nill Sánchez, today testified before the European Parliament LIBE Committee Public Hearing on […]
EU Police Push for Pan-European Facial Recognition Network
The proposal to link the EU’s facial recognition databases would likely connect them to the U.S. as well, in a […]
Congress eyes killing controversial surveillance program
Momentum is growing in Congress to reject the Trump administration’s request to reauthorize a controversial surveillance program. Lawmakers have until […]
Moscow deploys facial recognition technology for coronavirus quarantine
Moscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus […]
Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules
A Dutch court has ordered the immediate halt of an automated surveillance system for detecting welfare fraud because it violates […]
Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram’s tracking algorithm
Teenagers are using group accounts to flood Instagram with random user data that can’t be tied to a single person. If […]
Smart doorbell company Ring may be surveilling users through its app
The “Ring for Android” app shares user data including names, private IP addresses, mobile network carriers and sensor data with […]