Surveillance & Privacy
Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
Flock's expansion of rideshare dashcam networks for police coaching represents mass surveillance infrastructure enabling real-time… [more]
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State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”
A surveillance corporation with a history of attacking press freedom is advising the State Department on digital freedom and countering… [more]
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A surveillance company planned to weaponize 350,000+ gig economy workers' vehicles into a distributed mass surveillance network for… [more]
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Technology Expands ICE’s Capacity for Abuse
Documents DHS/ICE's deployment of interconnected surveillance infrastructure including facial recognition, iris scanners, and spyware by… [more]
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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Documents widespread deployment of automated license plate readers with AI capabilities designed for covert surveillance, representing… [more]
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
Documents North Korean state-sponsored cyber operations achieving widespread unauthorized access to hundreds of networks globally,… [more]
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DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
Government agency weaponizes lawsuit to obtain encrypted protest communications, exemplifying surveillance tactics targeting political… [more]
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
Police weaponized Flock automated plate reader data to profile and target an individual based on lawful interstate travel patterns,… [more]
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Podcast: This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His Phone
Case involving potential prosecution for phone deletion before government search represents concerning expansion of state surveillance… [more]
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Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
Apple's privacy tool systematically fails to protect users' IP addresses while marketed as privacy protection, exemplifying corporate… [more]
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Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
Advertising SDKs systematically extract location data without meaningful user consent through privacy-invasive defaults and financial… [more]
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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy
Documents systematic location data harvesting by advertising SDKs enabling mass surveillance by data brokers, law enforcement agencies,… [more]
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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
Documents how police departments actively hide their use of automated license plate reader surveillance from subjects and legal records,… [more]
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The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
Government agency secretly purchased access to over 1 billion global airline ticketing records from major carriers, enabling mass… [more]
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Joint statement on surveillance and interception in Bangladesh
Joint statement documenting systematic surveillance and interception practices by Bangladeshi authorities represents direct evidence of… [more]
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The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks
KOSA legislation would mandate age verification systems requiring platforms to collect extensive biometric and identity data on all users,… [more]
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EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act
Legislation enabling forced identification of web crawlers and unchecked judicial subpoenas to unmask anonymous automated traffic… [more]
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The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox
Well-intentioned privacy legislation creates perverse incentives for expanded surveillance infrastructure through mandatory age-gating and… [more]
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
Documents coordinated corporate-police effort to suppress public opposition and manipulate democratic processes through strategic… [more]
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Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
Whistleblower account from Flock surveillance company employee revealing corporate deception in selling mass automated license plate… [more]