Surveillance State
Immich Teams Up to Innovate Privacy-First Photo Storage
Immich, an open-source, self-hosted photo and video backup alternative to Google Photos, that aims t ...View More
Google’s New Conversation-Listening Tech Could Embolden Governments To Mandate On-Device Speech Scanning
Digital scams have become increasingly sophisticated and Google’s latest innovation offers a promisi ...View More
Military Surveillance Tech Prowls US Neighborhoods
[unable to retrieve full-text content]From Battlefield to Backyard: Advanced surveillance technology ...View More
Military Surveillance Tech Prowls US Neighborhoods
[unable to retrieve full-text content]From Battlefield to Backyard: Advanced surveillance technology ...View More
Controversial FAA Bill Passes Senate, Promotes Digital IDs and Mobile Licenses, Facial Recognition Concerns Ignored
The US Senate has passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization act, which enjoye ...View More
Controversial FAA Bill Passes Senate, Promotes Digital IDs and Mobile Licenses, Facial Recognition Concerns Ignored
The US Senate has passed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization act, which enjoye ...View More
The Warrantless Surveillance Bill Renewal Is Even Broader Than Many Noticed
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, amended in 2008), as a whole and its Section 702 in ...View More
EU’s Controversial Digital ID Regulations Set for 2024, Mandating Big Tech Compliance by 2026
The EU’s new digital ID rules, the Digital Identity Regulation (eIDAS 2.0), are about to come into f ...View More
Welcome to the Surveillance Renaissance
[unable to retrieve full-text content]How AI tools are reshaping crime fighting and concerns about c ...View More
Eyeball-Scanning Company Capitalizes on Argentina’s Inflation Crisis
Here’s news that at this point, in and of itself, is no news – Argentina is experiencing another wav ...View More
TikTok Fights Back Against Ban
On Tuesday, TikTok, together with its parent company ByteDance, took legal action in the US federal ...View More
A Private, End-To-End Encrypted, Open-Source Document, Photo, and Video Storage Service
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Keep your files safe with encryption keys that you control. Th ...View More
49 GOP Senators Confront Biden With a Bold Plea To Halt WHO Pandemic Proposals
Forty-nine GOP Senators are unified in their stance by submitting a formal request to President Joe ...View More
Australia’s Digital ID Push Is Undermined by Data Leak Disaster
The Australian government’s decision to institute a pilot program testing an online age verification ...View More
Recommended Open-Source Password Managers
[unable to retrieve full-text content]An open-source password manager serves as your ultimate digita ...View More
London’s Surveillance Scheme Rakes in Millions While Failing the Community
A scheme implemented by a Labour Party-controlled council in London, relying on Automatic Number Pla ...View More
RFK Jr. To Challenge TikTok Ban on Constitutional Grounds
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent presidential candidate, has declared his intent to fight again ...View More
WEF Report Supports CBDC and Digital ID, Urges Public-Private Collaboration in Finance
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is clearly championing the introduction not only of (retail) central ...View More
Kaiser Data Breach Exposes 13.4 Million Users’ Info to Google, Microsoft, and Others
According to the US-based healthcare colossus, Kaiser Permanente, an extensive amount of customer in ...View More
Banking on Surveillance: Republicans Investigate Major Banks’ Warrantless Data Sharing with Federal Agencies
Congressional Republicans are further investigating claims that at least 13 major US banks collabora ...View More
FCC Restores Net Neutrality Despite Concerns Over Government Intrusion
Presented as a way to secure the rights and welfare of internet consumers over the interests of broa ...View More
Paris Olympics 2024: A New Era of AI and Biometric Surveillance
There is – and not just the obvious, either – a link between the previous Tokyo Olympics, and the ev ...View More
Privacy Under Siege: Europol and the UK Crime Agency Target Encryption, Call For Backdoors
What is best known as the “politicization of institutions” in authoritarian societies is these days ...View More
Judge Challenges Appeals Court Over Computer Monitoring Ban in January 6 Parole
A US federal judge – who imposed draconian surveillance measures against a man charged and later con ...View More
The Senate’s Eleventh-Hour Approval of The Warrantless Surveillance Program
In the late hours of Friday, the US Senate approved the extension of the contentious FISA warrantles ...View More
CDC is Sued For Scrubbing Digital Records
AFL this week sued two federal departments and their chiefs alleging that they illegally destroyed C ...View More
