Big Brother wants your picture
The welcome news that the IRS will drop its creepy facial recognition program (and any biometric data it currently has will be deleted), is good news. But that’s just one…
Big Brother joins the private sector
Stories about government surveillance are disturbing because of the constitutional issues they raise, But what about employers who conduct surveillance on workers? It’s become a big issue with more people…
Apple will tweak, but not end, plans to scan customers’ devices
Apple’s program to scan customers’ devices in an effort to combat child exploitation has been put on hold. Sort of. According to Ars Technica, the tech giant is temporarily suspending…
Civil and human rights groups ask Apple to abandon its plan to scan phones
Apple’s decision to start “scanning children’s messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse” has raised serious concerns among privacy activists around the world….
Apple joins the surveillance team
Apple has positioned itself as a protector and advocate of its customers’ privacy. It was a good selling point against its market competitors, who trade freely in their own customers’…
Big Brother gets a job at the local HOA
Governments and their agents have long been big fans, and consumers, of surveillance technology. The more data they can get on people, the better, preferably without having to go to…
The online privacy charade
Most folks understand that advertisers are eager to track their behavior online. And they would do so to the greatest degree technology allows except, we’ve been told, most of our…
Intelligence Agency Skips Warrants, Uses Cell Phone Data to Track Individuals
A 2018 Supreme Court decision said that if government wants to track individual American citizens using cell phone data, then it would need a warrant to do so. But it…
Appeals Court Says NSA Metadata Collection was Probably Unconstitutional
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A federal appeals court recently ruled that a former National Security Agency (NSA) program that collected telephone metadata on millions of Americans over…
Senate Allows FBI to Keep Spying on Your Browser History Without a Warrant
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Senate voted to approve the ill-named USA Freedom Reauthorization Act – otherwise known as the Patriot Act — renewing the federal…
