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Canada orders Chinese video surveillance tech provider Hikvision to cease all operations and close its business in the country over national security concerns (Yi Wei Wong/Bloomberg)
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Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users
Hunt’s fears are not unfounded, Corynne McSherry, legal director for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Ars.…
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California's Sonoma County sued for illegal mass surveillance
Give them an inch and they take a mile. Sonoma County authorized a drone surveillance program to weed out illegal…
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Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company…
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Cyprus launches exciting new journalist surveillance program
Welcome to Cyprus, where officials discovered a new threat to national security: journalists reporting facts. As reported in OCCRP, the…
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Google decides regular human surveillance isn't enough, targets dolphins
Imagine trying to crack a language where every “word” is a complex pattern of clicks, whistles, and burst pulses. That’s…
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Flock Safety, maker of computer vision-enabled video surveillance tech for police and businesses, raised $275M at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4.8B a year ago (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
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RIP Mark Klein. He exposed NSA's secret surveillance program in notorious Room 641A
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently announced the passing of Mark Klein, the AT&T whistleblower who exposed the NSA’s mass…
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The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Under-desk sensors, in particular, have received high-profile backlash, perhaps because they are such an obvious piece of surveillance hardware rather…
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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance
There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online…
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