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Two people stand on a sidewalk gazing up at a brown brick wall adorned with numerous surveillance cameras aligned in rows and columns. A tall, narrow window and a black door are between the rows. The cameras face different directions, creating a striking visual pattern.

March 30, 2021

How Grassroots Coalition Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans

A grassroots coalition of Black youth, sex workers, and community advocates stood against the surveillance state—and won.

March 28, 2021

Amazon Subjects Its Drivers to Biometric Surveillance

Earlier this week, Motherboard revealed the company’s cruel “take it or leave” demand to its 75,000 delivery drivers: submit to biometric surveillance or lose your job.

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March 26, 2021

Ikea France on trial over claims it spied on staff, clients

Ikea’s French subsidiary and several of its former executives went on trial Monday over accusations that they illegally spied on employees and customers.

A smart display sits on a wooden nightstand. Its screen shows a bedtime routine with a 30-minute countdown and options for playing relaxing sounds. The time displayed is 9:30. Nearby are a vase with a plant and two rings. Soft ambient lighting creates a cozy atmosphere.

March 24, 2021

Google Nest 2 home device tracks body activity in bed

The new features have been criticised for collecting data when users are “most vulnerable”.

A man with short hair and a slight smile is facing forward. There is a digital overlay on his face displaying facial recognition features, with lines and points marking facial geometry. To the left, the word "PROCESSING" is shown above a progress bar. The background is blurred.

March 24, 2021

Facial Recognition: What Happens When We’re Tracked Everywhere We Go?

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.

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March 23, 2021

Cars Have Your Location. This Spy Firm Wants to Sell It to the U.S. Military

15 billion car locations. Nearly any country on Earth. ‘The Ulysses Group’ is pitching a powerful surveillance technology to the U.S. government.

March 23, 2021

As Digital Currency’s Popularity Rises, So Do Privacy Fears

Backers see a way to reach the unbanked. But any system could give the government a record of every dollar you spend.

March 18, 2021

TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround

They want to keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group.

March 17, 2021

Google says it won’t track you directly in the future as it phases out cookies

Google clarified its plans for targeted advertising as it phases out the use of browser cookies from Chrome.

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March 12, 2021

Broadband Carriers Should Seek Permission Before Harnessing Web-Browsing Data For Ads

“We believe that each and every customer paying for your internet service has the right to determine how their personal data will be used, on an opt-in basis,” Mozilla, the Internet Society, PublicKnowledge and others said in an open letter to the CEOs of T-Mobile AT&T and Verizon.