Surveillance & Privacy
Eight Sleep Pod 5 Review: The Smartest, Nosiest Bed You Can Buy
Article documents a commercial smart bed that conducts continuous biometric surveillance of users during sleep, exemplifying corporate… [more]
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Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Apple's privacy service failure and widespread license plate reader errors demonstrate how surveillance infrastructure fails to protect… [more]
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EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
Documents confirmed deployment of sophisticated spyware against EU lawmakers investigating surveillance, exemplifying how state-level… [more]
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LGBT Q&A: How Can I Wipe Online Data That Points To My Queer Identity?
Documents real surveillance infrastructure (data brokers, social media tracking) that disproportionately threatens vulnerable populations… [more]
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Ex-judge, ex-general sentenced to 5 years for spying on Chilean journalist
Documents illegal mass surveillance targeting independent journalist investigating military corruption, with high-ranking officials… [more]
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Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
Apple's year-long failure to fix a vulnerability that exposes supposedly hidden email addresses demonstrates corporate negligence in… [more]
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LGBT Q&A: What Data Are Companies in the UK Collecting When Verifying My Age?
UK age verification mandates requiring collection of personal/biometric data to access online content represent significant privacy… [more]
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US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
US Supreme Court decision undermining FTC independence eliminates the primary enforcement mechanism protecting EU citizens' personal data… [more]
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EFF to Gov. Pritzker: Veto Illinois’ HB 5511
Illinois HB 5511 mandates device-level age-gating requiring age data collection and sharing across internet services, constituting mass… [more]
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Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing
Proposed age verification law enables pervasive identity tracking and threatens anonymous speech critical for whistleblowers, journalists,… [more]
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NSW beaches to get dawn-to-dusk drone patrols in $34m anti-shark program
Represents significant expansion of persistent aerial surveillance infrastructure across 70 public beaches under public safety… [more]
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The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
Exposure of personal information belonging to senior national security officials demonstrates surveillance vulnerabilities in government… [more]
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EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits
Documents real-world surveillance infrastructure where corporate data collection and third-party broker sales enable identification,… [more]
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We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
California legislation mandating surveillance software on 3D printers represents mass monitoring infrastructure targeting a broad class of… [more]
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EFF, TEDIC and CEJIL Challenge Secrecy in the Use of Face Recognition in Paraguay
Documents state deployment of facial recognition surveillance infrastructure with deliberate opacity about protocols and scope,… [more]
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The FCC’s Spam Call Proposal Is Just a Data Collection Scheme
FCC proposal mandating personal data collection from all phone users under anti-spam pretense represents mass surveillance infrastructure… [more]
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Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?
Documents widespread deployment of automated license plate readers by local police in coordination with ICE to systematically track and… [more]
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Russia used Cellebrite tool to jail activist after the company claimed to have ended contract
Documents corporate surveillance tools used by authoritarian regime to jail political activists despite manufacturer claims of compliance… [more]
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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
Legislation requiring age checks for online access creates infrastructure for mass surveillance and tracking of Americans' web browsing… [more]
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The Intercept Sues to Uncover Secretive Government Anti-Protester Database
Documents reveal a secretive government database targeting protesters and activists for surveillance and travel restrictions, representing… [more]