NYC Swears Its Face-Scanning Tech Is Fake and Only Meant to Scare People Out of Doing Crimes
It’s a tale of two cities.
Cops Are Trying to Stop San Francisco From Banning Face Recognition Surveillance
San Francisco is inching closer to becoming the first American city to ban facial recognition surveillance, a booming…
The Feds, Police Are Using Google's Location History Feature to Track Down Suspects
Law enforcement queries of Google’s massive mobile device Location History database, which employees call Sensorvault,…
5 Times Jeff Bezos Tried to Warn Us Amazon Is Listening
Last night, Bloomberg published an alarming report about the “thousands” of Amazon workers paid to listen to Alexa…
The DEA Ran a Massive Database of People Who Bought Money-Counting Machines for Years
The Drug Enforcement Administration maintained a database of people who purchased money-counting machines as part of a…
Chinese Dating App for Queer and Lesbian Women Reportedly Left 5.3 Million Profiles Exposed
A Chinese dating app for lesbian and queer women exposed the profiles and private data of over 5.3 million users, TechCr…
Thousands of ICE Employees Have Access to Massive, Nationwide License Plate-Tracking System
Records obtained by the ACLU of Northern California in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit show that local city…
Cop Used Police Database to Creep on Over 100 Women, Investigation Finds
After a woman in Florida experienced a “chance brief encounter” with a police officer in a parking garage last year,…
Report: The NSA's Domestic Metadata Collection System Is Not Being Used and May Be Discontinued
The National Security Agency has “quietly shut down” the mass surveillance program it implemented after the September…
Report: China's Social Credit System Has Blocked Tens of Millions of Plane and Train Tickets
China’s dystopian “social credit” system—which penalizes citizens found to have engaged in some type of misconduct by…
England and Wales to Require Thousands of Criminals to Wear GPS Tracking Bracelets
Thousands of convicted criminals and others accused of crimes in England and Wales will be required to wear…
Actually, Secretly Filming Students' Cleavage Is Illegal, Canada's Supreme Court Rules
In 2015, Ontario high school teacher Ryan Jarvis was caught secretly recording the chests of female students with a spy…
U.S. Congressman Wants to Make Amazon Testify on Its Facial Recognition Tool
Last year’s wide-ranging and critical congressional hearings caught Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple and other tech…
Reddit Lands $150 Million From Chinese Censorship Giant Tencent as Users Call Bullshit
Reddit has raised a $300 million investment round led by $150 million cash injection from the Chinese tech titan…
Facebook Says It Needs to Collect All Your Data to Protect Against Terrorism and Child Abuse
Facebook was slapped with a ruling in Germany today that limits how the social media giant can collect data across its…
C.H.E.R.Y./L. the Robot Is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Unsung Hero
Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has come to an end, and it’s time to celebrate its underappreciated hero.
Privacy Groups Ask Pelosi to Stop Hyping Invasive Surveillance Along the Border
Hoping to color President Trump’s wall as a “medieval” solution to border security, Democratic leaders have offered up…
San Francisco Lawmaker Moves to Ban City's Use of Face Recognition Tech
The deployment of facial recognition technology by government bodies in cities around the world continues to spread,…
The Worst Pain in the World, Bendable Phones, and Joshua Tree: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Ten hut, Gizmodo readers! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution you should be working on? Do not answer that rhetorical…
Report of Bounty Hunters Buying Phone Location Data Leaves U.S. Senators Seething
Senate Democrats called on federal agencies Wednesday to investigate the practice by major telecommunications companies…