Mass Surveillance

On Friday, the Minneapolis City Council approved a new ordinance that prevents the city from buying or using face…

More than two years after Bloomberg Businessweek published a widely disputed investigation claiming the Chinese…

Clearview AI, now the byword for unchecked surveillance, has filed a wide-ranging patent application that…

Police in Jackson, Mississippi are reportedly asking resident owners of internet-connected security cameras, like…

Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked a trove of classified National…

Data analytics company Palantir—the firm co-founded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel most notorious for its work…

Donald Trump—who once demanded that former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden be executed for…

AI intelligence analysis startup Dataminr monitored nationwide protests against the death of Minneapolis man George…

A trio of Republican senators have introduced a bill that would force tech firms to engineer backdoors into their…

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has flown a Predator drone above ongoing protests against police brutality in…

The CEO of surveillance firm Banjo, one of the many firms pitching law enforcement agencies across the country on…

Creepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI—which claims to have built an extensive database from billions of photos…

Around this time last year, the National Security Agency stealthily shut down its disputed mass surveillance program…

Canadian authorities are investigating shady face recognition company Clearview AI on the grounds that its scraping…

The Indian government has asserted sweeping powers to “intercept, monitor, or decrypt” any information that is…

Berkeley, California became the fourth U.S. city to pass a ban on all government use of facial recognition…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is hoping that Congress will take him up on the offer to…

The government of New South Wales state in Australia is rolling out tech to automatically catch drivers who don’t…

The Drug Enforcement Administration maintained a database of people who purchased money-counting machines as part…

Records obtained by the ACLU of Northern California in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show that local…