Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.

On Friday, the government’s Section 702 surveillance authority lapsed! It may be temporary, but it’s still an important milestone. Section 702 was one of the surveillance programs Ed Snowden exposed in 2013 — and even after the exposure, the NSA has continued abusing it to spy on Americans. It’s the tool that lets the NSA […]

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

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Cops are human beings. Despite constantly pretending they’re on a higher plane (see also: Thin Blue Line, etc.), they’re just as fallible as anyone else. Especially now. This occupation is self-selecting. Righting wrongs is rarely the main draw. It’s almost always the immense of amount of power that comes coupled with nearly zero accountability. There […]

Last month I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” As with most efforts the proposal doesn’t actually do much to stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (1) refuses to hold big companies accountable or collect fines, (2) constantly embraces weak rules that make telemarketers and debt […]

A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person.

The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country’s telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued identification number and their physical address, alarming privacy advocates and civil rights activists who…

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data:

A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify…

The Trump administration has thrown billions at purging non-white people from this country. Most of that has ended up in the hands of ICE, which has — in turn — thrown hundreds of millions at a number of private companies offering bespoke and/or off-the-shelf surveillance solutions. The slide down the slippery slope began less than […]

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.

Most US World Cup stadiums are surrounded by surveillance cameras. Want to know if you’re being watched on your way to a match? These maps will help you.

President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless mass spying power must be reformed. Congress now faces a deadline of Friday, June 12 to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, an unconstitutional program rife with problems, loopholes, and compliance…

By Phil Mocek On Friday, Mayor Katie Wilson activated the Stadium District surveillance cameras for the duration of the FIFA…

The post Seattle Turned on the Surveillance Cameras Before It Wrote the Rules appeared first on PubliCola.

Controversy is being stirred by a Silicon Valley refugee who says Paonia is “on the cutting edge of violating citizens’ privacy.” Now he’s running for mayor.

New York expands street sensors to map crossings, near-misses and traffic patterns.

A self-described technologist describes on the Haven blog how he gives his kids the parts of technology he loved growing up, while keeping the surveillance-economy parts out of the house. His fixes mostly involve going back a couple of decades.

He bought a mini CD boom box and borrows CDs and DVDs from the public library. — Read the rest

The post A landline, a CD boom box, and a Pi-Hole: one…

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

Flock Safety doesn’t seem to care about anyone. Not its customers, not those captured by its cameras, not even the legislators trying to find a balance between safety and privacy. Flock started out by pitching its cameras — with built-in license plate readers — to the kind of people with money to blow on unproven […]

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Meta has backed off a little. After announcing in April that a tool called the Model Capability Initiative would log employees' keystrokes and mouse clicks to train its AI models, the company has now told staff they can pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time" or request an exemption altogether, according to an internal memo seen by the BBC. — Read the rest

The post Meta backs…

Don Marti has a rule of thumb: when Meta, Google, and Apple all line up behind a new "privacy" feature, someone should ask who actually benefits. In a post about the browser ad-measurement standard called Attribution Level 1, he argues the answer is Big Tech. — Read the rest

The post When Meta, Google, and Apple agree on "privacy," watch your wallet appeared first on Boing Boing.

Polis rejects measures on data-driven pricing, arbitration rules and single-use plastics, citing concerns over scope and state authority

The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.

The post One Company May Know Everything About You appeared first on The American Prospect.

As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its customers — law enforcement officers.

Despite some bipartisan pushback, much of Congress remains unwilling to take on the national security establishment.

The post Washington Still Bows to the Surveillance State appeared first on The American Prospect.

Serbia dropped reference to biometric technologies from its draft Law on Police, but its interior ministry has anyway installed formidable facial recognition software already used by Russia and Iran to track down dissenters.

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.

Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.

This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has…

The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.