By Bennett Cyphers In May, Senators Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Richard Blumenthal introduced…
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How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data
By Bennett Cyphers Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law…
Face Recognition Isn’t Just Face Identification and Verification: It’s Also Photo Clustering, Race Analysis, Real-time Tracking, and More
By Bennett Cyphers, Adam Schwartz, and Nathan Sheard Governments and corporations are tracking how we go…
After Cookies, Ad Tech Wants to Use Your Email to Track You Everywhere
By Bennett Cyphers Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. Google…
Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know.
By Bennett Cyphers Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC),…
Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers
By Bennett Cyphers and Karen Gullo COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home,…