Amazing what online search, social media profiles, a DMV database and cameras everywhere can turn up about us.
Tag Archives: surveillance
Congress wants to know who is using spyware against the US
A 2021 intelligence funding draft bill mandates a report on surveillance vendors and which countries or other actors are using spyware.
‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans
Can you tell whether you’re talking to a human or AI?
Clearview AI facial recogition sued again – this time by ACLU
Clearview AI, the company that’s scraped billions of images to build a facial recognition system, is getting sued again.
Internet giants unite to stop warrantless snooping on web histories
7 internet giants, including Mozilla, Reddit and Twitter, asked the House to do what the Senate narrowly missed doing: protect browsing history.
Senate renews warrantless collection of web histories
The government can keep on surveilling your online life without a warrant. An amendment to ban it failed by just one vote.
Woman stalked by sandwich server via her COVID-19 contact tracing info
She wanted a sub, not Facebook, Instagram and SMS come-ons from the guy who served her and intercepted her contact-tracing details.
Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois.
Coronavirus tracking tool from Apple and Google embraced by Germany
Germany’s ditched a homegrown alternative that featured a centralized database of location data, raising privacy concerns.
TikTok users beware: Hackers could swap your videos with their own
TikTok doesn’t use HTTPS for its images and videos – so crooks could swap out the videos you see and you would never know.