Surveillance & Privacy
🦅 Domestic Spying Takes an L | EFFector 38.12
Documents widespread warrantless domestic surveillance of millions of Americans through Section 702, a law repeatedly reauthorized despite… [more]
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Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II
Article documents real instances of corporate surveillance infrastructure (MSG facial recognition dossiers on activists, data center… [more]
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Why are there holiday delay warnings over the EU's new border system?
The EU's Entry/Exit System represents infrastructure for mass surveillance and biometric data collection of travelers across 29 countries,… [more]
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Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
Corporate venue deployed mass biometric surveillance and compiled dossiers on activists opposing the technology, exemplifying surveillance… [more]
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Meta’s Very Own Smart Glasses Go on Sale Today for $299
Smart glasses with always-on cameras and microphones represent ambient surveillance infrastructure that normalizes continuous recording… [more]
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Why is Israel being accused of meddling in Colombia presidential election?
Allegations of digital manipulation in elections and foreign interference represent concerns about surveillance-based electoral tampering… [more]
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Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones
Government-mandated app that reinstalls itself on federal workers' phones represents involuntary surveillance infrastructure and erosion… [more]
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EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners!
Documents how major tech corporations and EU governments conspire to preserve invasive cookie tracking mechanisms disguised as user… [more]
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Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Meta's employee-tracking program exemplifies corporate surveillance infrastructure and the normalization of invasive monitoring systems,… [more]
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Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Dystopian-relevant: Corporate mass surveillance of employees through keystroke tracking and biometric data collection for AI model… [more]
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Tight security as Indian students resit medical exam after alleged paper leak
Dystopian surveillance infrastructure: millions of students subjected to biometric checks and physical frisking with military enforcement… [more]
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Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
Multiple dystopian elements present: facial recognition deployment in gay bars enabling targeted surveillance and potential… [more]
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Texas govt data breach exposes over 3 million driver’s licenses
A vendor failure at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department exposed personal information for over three million individuals, including… [more]
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EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border
Government deployment of racially-biased facial age estimation technology on asylum-seeking children represents mass biometric… [more]
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Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous Surveillance Bill
Bill C-22 represents a significant dystopian threat through mandated encryption backdoors, mass metadata retention, and unaccountable… [more]
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The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
UK government deploying known-flawed facial recognition technology for age verification of asylum-seekers despite internal evidence of… [more]
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Bulgaria Licensed Surveillance Exports to Rights Violators
Documents real-world government licensing of surveillance technology to rights-violating regimes, exemplifying institutional complicity in… [more]
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Senate Democrats Aren’t Happy About Trump’s Spy Law Ultimatum
Documents real political efforts to expand domestic surveillance powers (FISA Section 702) while linking renewal to voter suppression,… [more]
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Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must protect Palestinians in Gaza after massive data breach
Exposure of 600,000 Palestinians' personal data including names, ID numbers, and locations during active conflict creates acute… [more]
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How Did the Feds Get Into Anti-ICE Activists’ Signal Messages?
Federal authorities exploited Signal communications to build cases against anti-ICE activists, demonstrating government capability to… [more]