A federal court of appeals ruled that a traveler's cellphone may be searched by government agents at the border without a warrant or suspicion.

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The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually e...

Despite the eight-fold growth of surveillance cameras directly accessible by Atlanta PD officers, crime clearance rates haven't increased.

Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or ...

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Proponents have called the law a necessary step to address gun violence, but critics say the requirements aren't tenable and threaten free expression.

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom...

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Congress must step in to ensure these tools are used lawfully and that this administration commits to respecting our constitutional rights.

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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Failed to Obtain Constitutional Authority from Governor Brian Kemp to File Sweeping RICO Conspiracy Indictment More than three months after a pretrial hearing in th...

Over the summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended decades of traditional First Amendment standards to say that Texas could put in place an age verification law if that law was inte…

Two of the new cameras will be drones.

Online privacy protections could be demolished, advocates warn

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A group of Georgia state senators are calling for further age verification legislation, greater parental control of minors’ app store activity and restrictions on the usage of personal information gat...

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When a government contractor’s right to privacy outweighs the public’s right to know

Flock cameras have been called invasive, insecure, and unconstitutional. Can a grassroots movement beat them back?

A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (D-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users’ ages, prohibit minors

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...

Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on thes...

At a time when data centers are in the news, and models of cost sharing for their power requirements are up for debate, one state government agency holds a key position: Th

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A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

We observed that, despite claiming to offer “double anonymity” options (intended to hide user traffic), AgeGO collects the URL of the video the user attempts to watch … when users select the “Selfi…

That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.

Parts of the hacker community have always been concerned with techno dystopias and authoritarianism. Recent events have prompted many people to wonder if the United States

Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.

A single searchable database of all Americans’ sensitive information is the goal of the president and Palantir – and the dream of authoritarians.

In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised co...

The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote. But Democratic critics and data experts warn it could allow the federal g...

Local homeowners' associations are using cameras to fine people for speeding in their neighborhoods.

The internet age-verification craze that’s sweeping the nation isn’t really about protecting little Dick and Jane from Pornhub—it’s about giving government and companies the power to decide what’s “ha...

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

Researchers recently caught Meta using an egregious new tracking technique to spy on you. Exploiting a technical loophole, the company was able to have their apps snoop on users’ web browsing. This tr...

Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online. KOSA...

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Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to si...

City and state leaders held a ribbon-cutting on Tuesday for one of the most divisive construction projects in metro Atlanta’s history.