Sidney Fussell's posts

Under newly elected President Iván Duque, Colombia is testing remote-controlled drones designed to track and destroy…

Passengers waiting to fly out of London’s Gatwick airport Monday morning were left squinting and craning their necks…

Since 2016, Sacramento County officials have been accessing license plate reader data to track welfare recipients…

In 2018, you go unhinged or you go home.

Once lauded as tools to enhance police accountability, body cameras have been facing increasing scrutiny from…

The TSA admitted to surveilling about 5,000 citizens this year as part of its secretive “Quiet Skies” program,…

Face recognition is coming to schools, stadiums, and airports, but surprisingly not to body cameras—yet. On an…

Early one morning in April 2013, a stranger knocked on Virginia Hanlon’s door, identifying himself as a building…

U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice, a New York Democrat, has introduced a new bill that compels the Transportation…

The Bangladeshi government has reportedly suspended 3G and 4G mobile internet services since last Saturday after…

Surveillance drones are headed indoors.

Days after the ACLU released a damning report on Amazon’s face recognition product Rekognition, Amazon’s general…

Shoppers at the Chinook Centre, a mall in Calgary, Canada, have been unwittingly scanned by face recognition…

Hundreds of inmates in Idaho prison facilities reportedly exploited a “hack” that allowed them to illegitimately add…

Amazon’s controversial face recognition software, called Rekognition, misidentified more than two dozen members of…

As companies race to employ facial recognition everywhere from major league ballparks to your local school and summe…

Facebook has signed an agreement with Washington state to retool its advertising platform after a Pro Publica…

Dozens of defendants were sentenced to prison on a wealth of fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges…

Facebook is restricting WhatsApp users’ ability to forward messages: Each message can now only be sent to a maximum…

The surveillance state is now entering sewers.