Records obtained by the ACLU of Northern California in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show that local city…
After a woman in Florida experienced a “chance brief encounter” with a police officer in a parking garage last year,…
The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the September…
China’s dystopian “social credit” system—which penalizes citizens found to have engaged in some type of misconduct by…
Thousands of convicted criminals and others accused of crimes in England and Wales will be required to wear…
In 2015, Ontario high school teacher Ryan Jarvis was caught secretly recording the chests of female students with a spy…
Last year’s wide-ranging and critical congressional hearings caught Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple and other tech…
Reddit has raised a $300 million investment round led by $150 million cash injection from the Chinese tech titan…
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Senate Democrats called on federal agencies Wednesday to investigate the practice by major telecommunications companies…
The state of Florida passed a law in 2015 banning the use of drones to monitor citizens from the air. But police in…
The devil is in the downloads, says Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. In a recent…
With signs that the New York trial of notorious Mexican drug lord and alleged mass murderer Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán…
Google has had a lawsuit in Illinois over its facial-recognition software thrown out, with a judge dismissing the case o…
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Intelligence agencies in the UK are preparing to “significantly increase their use of large-scale data hacking,” the Gua…
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