Aug 26
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Data analytics company Palantir—the firm co-founded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel most notorious for its work…
Aug 14
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Donald Trump—who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for…
Jul 9
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AI intelligence analysis startup Dataminr monitored nationwide protests against the death of Minneapolis man George…
Jun 24
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A trio of Republican senators have introduced a bill that would force tech firms to engineer backdoors into their…
May 29
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has flown a Predator drone above ongoing protests against police brutality in…
May 11
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The CEO of surveillance firm Banjo, one of the many firms pitching law enforcement agencies across the country on…
Mar 5
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Creepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI—which claims to have built an extensive database from billions of photos…
Feb 25
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Around this time last year, the National Security Agency stealthily shut down its disputed mass surveillance program…
Feb 21
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Canadian authorities are investigating shady face recognition company Clearview AI on the grounds that its scraping…
Nov 19
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The Indian government has asserted sweeping powers to “intercept, monitor, or decrypt” any information that is…
Oct 16 2019
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Berkeley, California became the fourth U.S. city to pass a ban on all government use of facial recognition…
Sep 26 2019
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is hoping that Congress will take him up on the offer to…
Sep 24 2019
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The government of New South Wales state in Australia is rolling out tech to automatically catch drivers who don’t…
Mar 31 2019
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The Drug Enforcement Administration maintained a database of people who purchased money-counting machines as part…
Mar 13 2019
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Records obtained by the ACLU of Northern California in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show that local…
Mar 4 2019
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The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the…
Feb 15 2019
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A misconfigured online database has exposed new details of China’s tyrannical surveillance apparatus, which the…
Feb 14 2019
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A spending bill expected to pass the House and Senate on Thursday, and then be signed by President Trump before this…
Dec 9 2018
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Intelligence agencies in the UK are preparing to “significantly increase their use of large-scale data hacking,” the …
Nov 10 2018
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have put an “undisclosed…