Google admits ‘language experts’ listen to ‘some’ assistant recordings
Google’s smart speakers are recording users when they least expect it, according to temp worker language experts hired by the company to listen to the...
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Police dropping ‘crime prediction’ software… because it’s ineffective
Several California police departments have stopped using "predictive policing" software, but not out of concern for civil liberties...
Amazon admits it keeps some Alexa recordings even when users delete them
Amazon has admitted some recordings made by its constantly-eavesdropping AI personal assistant Alexa are never really gone from...
U.S. May Outlaw Messaging Encryption Used By WhatsApp, iMessage And Others
End-to-end encrypted messaging is a major issue for law enforcement—as the world shifts from easy to crack (for governments) cellular SMS messaging to various flavors...
FBI pushes US universities to spy on Chinese students & visitors
The FBI is urging American universities to help the agency spy on Chinese students and scholars from Chinese...
NSA caught illegally collecting Americans’ phone data.. again…
The NSA has been caught improperly collecting Americans’ phone data yet again, just months after a similar incident...
Only 2% of Amazon shareholders vote against giving facial recognition to government
Amazon shareholders voted almost unanimously to reject a proposal to stop selling facial recognition tech to government agencies, and even a study of its effects...
You’ve been warned: Widespread US face surveillance is ‘reality’
Georgetown researchers are warning Americans about a sophisticated real-time face surveillance system that’s about to become an “imminent...
NYPD used celebrity doppelgängers to fudge facial recognition results
The New York Police Department abused its facial recognition system by editing suspects' photos ─ and by uploading...
San Francisco becomes first US city to ban facial recognition
The city of San Francisco has voted to ban the use of facial recognition tech by local law...
Popular GPS tracker can be remotely hacked anytime, warns security firm
A GPS tracker used as a panic alarm has major security flaws that can leak users’ real-time location and allow it to be remotely deactivated,...
UK spy agency calls Trump’s ‘wiretapping’ charges tweet ‘utterly-ridiculous nonsense’
Following Donald Trump’s tweet quoting a former CIA analyst who accused a UK spy agency of spying on...
Zuckerberg asks governments for more internet regulation
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked governments and regulators to tighten the screws on digital companies such as...
Big Brother In Your Volvo: If Your Drunk; You Wont Be Driving
Volvo has always been synonymous with car safety, and today it revealed its latest advances in technology it will introduce to the market in the...
US government spies on journalists! (Who track migrant caravans)
Journalists, activists, lawyers and “organizers” involved with last year’s Central American migrant caravans were tracked by US government...
NSA kills phone spying program exposed by Snowden… to replace it with something better?
The National Security Agency has reportedly ended the intrusive spying program that combs through Americans’ calls and texts...
Clapper claims he ‘didn’t lie’ about NSA spying on Americans, but ‘didn’t understand’ the question
NSA director-turned-cable-news-pundit James Clapper is still insisting he wasn’t lying when he told a congressional panel the NSA wasn’t spying on American citizens – three...