Bezos complains about nude pics privacy invasion while building surveillance state
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who led the tech giant as it cozied up with US authorities to develop surveillance tools, is now complaining that his...
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Saudi Arabia Makes App to Stop Women from Traveling Without Consent
The Saudi National Information Center has developed a mobile application called “Absher” (Arabic for “Enjoy”) that allows male...
Smart meters to track dementia patients
The NHS is to use energy smart meters to monitor dementia patients in their homes. The devices will track patients’...
Denying govt agencies facial recognition tech would be ‘cruel’, claims Microsoft president
Microsoft's chief shot down calls to stop selling facial recognition tech to governments, saying it would be “cruel” to deprive state agencies of the ability...
Facebook snoops on people just like NSA – Belgian watchdog to court
Facebook is spying on people in “the very same way” that the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) does,...
Federal court rules in favor of NSA bulk snooping, White House happy
Despite the opposition of the US public and lawmakers to NSA surveillance, the courts keep handing the Obama...
North Dakota to use police drones with non-lethal weapons
North Dakota police have been authorized to equip drones with Tasers, tear gas, and other non-lethal weapons after interference from a police lobby group led...
Police secretly track cellphones to solve routine crimes
The crime itself was ordinary: Someone smashed the back window of a parked car one evening and ran...
US spied on Japanese govt, companies, passed intelligence to Australia, New Zealand
Washington spied on its key ally, Japan, and passed intelligence on to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the...
UN criticizes ‘excessive’ French spy law as it goes into effect
[caption id="attachment_67459" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Security cameras are seen on a corner across the street from France's Interior Ministry...
FBI chief pushes for encryption ‘back door’ despite tech experts’ opposition
Encryption is a threat to public safety, the FBI director argued before testifying at a Senate hearing. Crypto experts and the tech industry oppose demands...
US govt researching biometric tattoo ink recognition
Tattoos might be the next biometric frontier, with one in five Americans sporting ink these days. The FBI...
NSA surveillance reforms: Are telecom companies ready?
The USA Freedom Act, signed this week, has curbed the NSA's mass surveillance powers. Now the phone companies...
NSA says it will keep phone records even if surveillance program ends
The National Security Agency has said it will lock down and mothball its archive of US citizens’ phone records if its legal authority to go...
‘We Are Always Listening’: Pranksters plant recording devices across NYC
A group of anti-NSA pranksters have planted recording devices in public places across New York, saying that they...
‘German intelligence dependent on NSA’ – Berlin’s spy chief
The German Intelligence Agency chief says Berlin is dependent on the NSA, not vice versa, as US presence...
Apple and Google just attended a confidential spy summit in a remote English mansion
At an 18th-century mansion in England’s countryside last week, current and former spy chiefs from seven countries faced off with representatives from tech giants Apple...
Samsung Smart TVs Are Listening To EVERY Word You Say!
Tech giant Samsung has warned customers against discussing personal or sensitive information in front of its voice-activated televisions....
DEA admits to collecting phone records of Americans
Yet another federal agency of the United States government maintained a database of phone records pertaining to Americans...
California cops sign contract to begin using massive biometric database
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the fourth largest local policing agency in the United States –...
New NSA reports show spy agency routinely collected intel on Americans
Hundreds of pages of reports previously classified top-secret were released by the National Security Agency on Christmas Eve. They reveal dozens of instances of the...
NSA and EFF to square off in court over internet surveillance
A digital rights group in the United States plans to argue in federal court this week that the...
Cops scan social media to help assess your ‘threat rating’
A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today’s professional police...
Voiceprint harvesting – the next frontier in data privacy war
Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior records and mobile phone metadata, there is a little-known digital...