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Tech and civil-rights groups sought an order to require warrants for surveillance queries; the ruling sides with the city on privacy expectations on public streets.

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

FPF is hiring a senior digital security trainer to conduct in-field digital security training with journalists and newsrooms.

The technology has raised privacy concerns in the city and beyond, prompting some jurisdictions to cancel their contracts with Flock.

Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (BKC), an interfaculty research center, seeks a Director of Research. This is a rare and...

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

And why I think they are wrong, and the Supreme Court should step in.

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

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.

In an age of limitless access to data, the Privacy Act of 1974 urgently needs expanded coverage and independent oversight.

Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn't search for.

Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Some Flock customers “already have contracts with Axon for body cameras and other products,” the ACLU said.

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

A massive trove of driver’s license scans allegedly stolen from an identity verification company shows the danger of creating honey pots of our most sensitive documents for malicious actors to exploit.

Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail.

Trump designated a collective that provides anonymous email services as a foreign “terrorist” group. It could curtail free speech in the U.S.

AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

A judge has sided with Stanford’s student newspaper in a lawsuit that argued the Trump administration violated First Amendment protections by threatening noncitizens who criticized Israel.

More than $500 billion in projected annual drug sales face patent expirations in the coming years.

Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything

Christian Cirhigiri and Sabine Witting unpack France’s ruling against an under-15 social media ban and what it means for future bans across Europe.

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