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Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
This holiday season, please reconsider buying smart doorbells to protect your online shipments. The cybersecurity and privacy risks are too severe.
Compliance isn't the same as an ethical commitment to privacy.
The US, like China, has about one surveillance camera for every four people, says report - The Verge
One billion cameras will be installed globally by 2021, says IHS Markit.
Amazon's surveillance company has seeped into hundreds of American communities by throwing parties for police and giving them free devices.
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class
As families worry for their children’s futures, a district has instituted a yearly data purge
Tom Nash made this request to Virginia Commonwealth University of Virginia.
Ad-blockers have figured out a way to block the unblockable – a pernicious tracker technique that hides advertising networks in plain sight.
Good but lengthy explainer. Middle section is a bit technical.
Firefox is getting ready to turn on its automatic anti-snooping tools to stop web ‘fingerprinting” tricks.
Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web
The school is 'interested in improving student success.'
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
Five Democrats demand answers on private footage accessed in Ukraine.
Across the United States and Europe, notice and consent, the act of clicking that “I have read and agree” to a platform’s terms of service, is the central devic
In an age where school shootings are coming commonplace, something like a student skipping class could trigger a school to go into lockdown.
How appealing is it to mount a camera to the outside of your house, where it constantly watches the world without ever blinking or turning off? Every se
The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable