US Police Launch Drone Programs, but No Facial Recognition Technology on Unmanned Aircraft Systems – Yet

By Joel R. McConvey Police across the U.S. are putting eyes in the sky, as the…

Victory! Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data

By Hudson Hongo For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California…

Drone As First Responder Programs Are Swarming Across the United States

By Beryl Lipton Law enforcement wants more drones, and we’ll probably see many more of them…

Report: US Government Spies on Thousands of Americans’ Mail Every Year

By Connor Freeman The US Postal Service (USPS) has been spying on thousands of Americans’ mail…

You Will Be Tagged… And You Will Love It

Authored by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, As expected, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum was the hottest…

Police are Using Drones More and Spending More For Them

By Matthew Guariglia and Beryl Lipton Police in Minnesota are buying and flying more drones than…

New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat

By Dave Maas and Cooper Quintin Government officials across the U.S. frequently promote the supposed, and…

Five Eyes biometric data sharing increases by over 100X with little transparency

By Chris Burt A network for sharing biometrics, demographics and other data about visitors, migrants and…

The UN Cybercrime Draft Convention is a Blank Check for Unchecked Surveillance Abuses

By Katitza Rodriguez This is the first post in a series highlighting the problems and flaws…

The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know.

By Beryl Lipton and Cooper Quintin A proposal document from Jacobs Technology, provided to the Massachusetts…

Speed Cameras In Atlanta Improperly Issued $300,000 To $500,000 Worth Of Tickets

By Tyler Durden This is where the future is heading when we leave the police work…

School To Use Remote Tracking Wristbands On Children

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news A school in Switzerland has controversially announced it will trial…

Ugandan human rights lawyer’s arrest exposes use of national ID for surveillance

By Abigail Opiah A Ugandan human rights lawyer’s recent arrest highlights the country’s surveillance and government…

From Banks to Big Brother: The Rise of Financial Surveillance

By Michael Boldin Think you have financial privacy? Think again. Since Nixon, the US has increasingly…

The Growing Move Away From Screen Time

By Neenah Payne When Steve Jobs introduction of the iPhone in 2007, it was pure magic…