In addition to mission creep, the SFPD has steadily and exponentially increased the number of drone flights, from roughly 350 deployments in 2024, to over 1,100 from January to August 2025, to over 3,500 in just the first five months of 2026.

A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

Police continue to trial overt live facial recognition provided by NEC, and say it has so far produced a “tangible increase in community safety.”

The Innocence Project and the ACLU have picked up the cause of Jason Killinger, a man arrested following a facial recognition match by Peppermill casino.

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising, which is when companies personalize the ads they show you based on the data they’...

LAPD's $235M Axon deal and streetlight ALPR pilot head to City Council, but key data retention and sharing rules remain undisclosed.

The latest ruling in the lawsuit filed by WhatsApp against the NSO Group bars the spyware maker from targeting the communication app’s users.

Revolut launches Pay with Smile facial recognition payments for UK hospitality, piloting the service with Kiss the Hippo alongside its new Register POS system.

On 17 June, the European Parliament approved the new deportation law (called the “Return” Regulation) which aims to track undocumented people down and deport them from the EU in large numbers. The Regulation boosts the surveillance powers and digital control of national authorities and will rely heavily on technologies and data collection in their enforcement. This blog outlines the various digital tools and processes included in the EU’s new digital deportation regime.

In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab confirmed that the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement was infected with Pegasus spyware.

With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillance

Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer to him.

Kinshasa, September 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in southeast Democratic Republic of the Congo to immediately release journalist Trésor Muntu, who was detained on Tuesday after sharing another journalist’s post that criticized a politician. “DRC authorities must free Trésor Muntu and refrain from weaponizing the justice system to intimidate journalists,” said...

Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers

Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in the conversation. End-to-end encryption helps provide the mathematical guarantees that the companies...

Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device

UK and allies provide advice to help organisations and individuals at risk detect and counter the threat from CHOSEN BRICK malware.

UK and allies provide advice to help organisations and individuals at risk detect and counter the threat from CHOSEN BRICK malware.

Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers

Shabana Mahmood is concerned about length and £144m cost of inquiry into intrusive police surveillance

Berlin, September 8, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the harsh 15-year prison sentence handed down by Russian occupation authorities to retired Ukrainian journalist Iryna Levchenko on charges of “espionage,” and calls for her immediate and unconditional release. The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Regional Court said on September 4 it had sentenced Levchenko, who is 64 and...

Palantir created ELITE, a powerful new app for ICE to target immigrants. The feds never published a legally required privacy assessment for it.