Limit Government's Use of Surveillance Technology Before It's Too Late
We can't stop technological advancement, but we should limit government misuse of it.
We can't stop technological advancement, but we should limit government misuse of it.
The government needs a warrant to spy on you. So agencies are paying tech companies to do it instead.
Personal data retained by government or private entities are always at risk of compromise, misuse, or access by law enforcement.
A lawyer who should know better wants to ignore the history of snooping cops to fight guns and crime.
Argentina's self-proclaimed libertarian president touts a crime-fighting plan that sounds like Minority Report.
Warrantless surveillance, Comic Con "sex trafficking," and the persistence of trafficking myths
Robert Williams was arrested in 2020 after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him as the person responsible for a Detroit-area shoplifting incident.
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place.
Collecting and analyzing newborns' blood could allow the state to surveil people for life.
While the decision is great news for Tennesseans, it's only the first step in reclaiming Americans' property rights against the open fields doctrine.
The surveillance company mSpy just suffered its third data breach in a decade, exposing government officials snooping for both official and unofficial reasons.
And a grand jury says that's illegal.
A year after a court told Maryland police that Cellebrite searches were too broad, Baltimore quietly resumed using the software.
A proposed USDA rule would require RFID tagging of all cattle and bison that move across state lines.
The plaintiffs are challenging the state's widespread surveillance, which it collects through over 600 cameras.
A WIRED investigation reveals the extent to which residents of Chula Vista are subjected to surveillance from the sky.
While drones are less likely to shoot or maim innocent civilians, they could also pose privacy issues.
The White House announced a “near final” defense pact with Saudi Arabia yesterday, just as new evidence about Saudi links to 9/11 is emerging.
The intelligence community is admitting that info from data brokers is sensitive but isn’t accepting hard limits on how to use it.
The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not.
Hoover’s reign at the FBI compromised American civil liberties and turned the FBI into America's secret police.
The Department of Justice indicted the creators of Samourai Wallet, an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously.
The court declined to address whether the search violated the Fourth Amendment and merely held that the evidence could not be excluded in a civil case.
A FOIA request reveals what the FBI and Homeland Security had to say about anarchist activities on May Day 2015.
A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
"This bill would basically allow the government to institute a spy draft," warns head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
New language could make almost anybody with access to a WiFi router help the government snoop.
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from purchasing data that they would otherwise need a warrant to obtain.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
"I told everybody, 'Do what you want,'" Trump said on Friday night, as he let the deep state win again.
U.S. need for Australia’s cooperation in the Pacific may win the journalist’s release.
The measure would have required federal agents to get a warrant before searching American communications collected as part of foreign intelligence.
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A Section 702 reauthorization moving through Congress could actually weaken privacy protections.
Concerns about public safety will eventually recede, but Big Brother will still be watching.
From struggle sessions to cancel culture, the story depicts the terrors of surveillance authoritarianism.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
Modern cars are smartphones on wheels, but with less protection for your data.
And in the process, it will stifle innovation and competition.
The story behind the city's ban on unlicensed drone businesses is even weirder than the ban itself.
Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media.
Hackers have unmasked some of the tactics Beijing and Tehran use to silence their opponents.
Byron Tau's Means of Control documents how the private sector helps government agencies keep tabs on American citizens.
The measure, which will be on the March 5 ballot, would greatly expand the SFPD's power while subjecting it to even less scrutiny.
The surveillance yielded 49 arrests, of which 42 were for possession or sale of narcotics.
Congress gave FISA’s Section 702 a brief lease on life, but civil liberties concerns haven’t gone away.