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“Now we have a big contract with Vodafone, and every month Vodafone has to give machine readable data to city hall. Before, that didn’t happen. The...
Rewind is launching a Mac desktop app. When you search for a given term, you see every occurrence wherever it happened, as well as what else was op...
A tool made for tracking criminals and terrorists has potentially been used against politicians, dissidents and journalists. Here’s how the spyware...
While it’s possible to understand Apple’s motivations behind its decision to enable on-device scanning, the company had a better way to satisfy its...
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr...
What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? Machine learning is helping CCTV cameras to analyze what we do in real time, creating a ...
Will 1,500 Street Cameras Be a Wet Blanket in New Orleans? Residents wonder whether the city’s freewheeling appeal will suffer if bars, clubs an...
Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution
Strava Heatmap shows that fitness trackers represent a privacy threat. Where you jog, where you work, and, yes, where you sleep — all this and...
A start-up called Skydio has created a consumer drone that flies itself. Its tech is likely to become ubiquitous. “The drone knows your face, yo...
Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi We took a hacker to a café and, in 20 minutes, he knew where everyone else was born, wh...
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
Facial-recognition systems can help bolster security, but some experts say the technology raises questions about privacy and data security.
Europe’s imminent privacy overhaul means that we all have to become more diligent about what data we collect, how we collect it, and what we do wit...
I asked my wife if it is alright if her Date of Birth is known to a stranger. Only if they send me a birthday gift, she joked. What about your pass...
At the University of Arizona, school officials know when students are going to drop out before they do. The public college in Tucson has been quiet...
Advanced surveillance technologies once reserved for international airports and high-security prisons are coming to schools across America. From Ne...
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were i...
The suspect was caught by facial recognition technology at a pop concert, which he regrets attending.
The FRA provides the EU institutions and Member States with independent, evidence-based advice on fundamental rights. The aim is to contribute towa...
Another week, another massive privacy scandal. When it’s not Facebook admitting it allowed data on as many as 87 million users to be sucked out by ...
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
The method was similar to the one Netflix uses to recommend movies — no crystal ball, but good enough to make an effective political tool.
The government requires its people to submit finger, eye and facial images. The ID is mandatory for many services, but opponents say it infringes p...
Hey! Take off that Fitbit and turn it off. Hand in that Apple Watch. Make sure you’ve turned off the geolocation capabilities of your Garmin. That ...
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, he...
A growing number of districts are deploying cameras and software to prevent attacks. But the systems are also used to monitor students—and adult cr...
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w...
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