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A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying TechnologyEFF’s “Street-Level Surveillance” project shines light on the advanced surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our
Israeli tech firm NSO denies media reports that its software has been sold to authoritarian regimes.
This post is co-authored and jointly published with Sarah Silverman ~~ The harms of remote proctoring have been so extensively documented that some educational institutions have now instituted form…
Our investigation shows how repressive regimes can buy and use the kind of spying tools Edward Snowden warned us about
If surveillance doesn’t make us act differently, explain this: The psychology department’s coffee room at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom offers coffee and tea on the honor system: users…
We know targeted political adverts contribute to polarisation, but commerical ones leave us fragmented too.
The company is also adding support for authenticator apps.
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
Definitions of privacy change, as do norms for protecting it. Why, then, are privacy scholars and activists currently worried about “normalization”? This essay
Against behavioral tracking and vendor dossiers.
Greenlight says it isn't currently selling data on kids' spending habits to advertisers, but its privacy policy suggests it could start anytime.
People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others
As George Floyd's death sparked protests in cities across the country, six federal agencies turned to facial-recognition software in an effort to identify people in images of the civil unrest, according to a new report from a government agency.
How ad tech companies - and the marketers and publishers that enable them - weaponize data against cancer victims.
Doorbell cameras, smart thermostats, digital assistants, and other always-on devices open up a whole new world of privacy risks when the government has access to their data.
More and more devices are becoming part of the ‘internet of things.’ Here’s what they are, what they collect, and what police might get.
Why Google thought twice about restoring your privacy.
Otonomo says its vehicle location data is privacy-protecting. The data itself says otherwise.