police Amazon admits police get Ring camera footage without owners' consent or a warrant Rob Beschizza
surveillance 7 years later, US court of appeals rules that NSA program leaked by Snowden was illegal after all Thom Dunn
data Ignoring warrants, the Secret Service has been buying up location data from phone companies Thom Dunn
surveillance When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance Cory Doctorow
politics FBI habitually abuses anti-terror surveillance powers: one U.S. Senator "improperly" surveilled 702 times Rob Beschizza
Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
law enforcement That Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics has a new job on the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad Thom Dunn
web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow
security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
politics NSA domestic surveillance debate returns to Congress with 'Ending Mass Collection of Americans' Phone Records Act' Xeni Jardin
