Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city…

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.

Governor Newsom signed a package of 12 bills yesterday aimed at “protecting children” online. One of them was AB 1709, which EFF has opposed this legislative session and serves as a functional ban on

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More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

“Is there any talk to redesign the Outpost to not look exactly like the Flock camera — I think it will help agencies with the optics while we batten down the hatches,” one apparent cop asked during a ...

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Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.

Know Your Rights University (KYR-U) is an animated series that teaches kids lessons about civics, constitutional rights, and free expression! KYR-U makes learning fun, and comes at a time when being a...

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Police arrested EJ Carrion in Fort Worth for 'tumultuous behavior' a week after he called local officials 'bullshit' at a county meeting.

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Microsoft links hijacked hotel Wi-Fi to fake updates that deliver CornFlake, steal cloud tokens, and abuse device codes to target travelers.

Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.

YouTube told ASMR artists including Bunnii, Slight Sounds, Rose, and others that their content broke the platform's sex and nudity policy. Creators say these bans are unfair and potentially life-alter...

The 84-page report, “‘You’re Only Getting Out Deported or Dead’: Abusive US Immigration Detention at Ft. Bliss,” documents conditions at the largest immigration detention facility in the United States...

Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee introduced clips from video depositions by Ivanka Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr to show President Trump's claims of substantial vo...

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Some Castro bars are using face-detection security system Patronscan, but not everyone wants to share their info.

Update (June 19): After publication, Frontier Airlines provided TechSpot with a statement saying it was "aware of potential IT vulnerabilities" and that the issues had been "addressed...

EpsteinWiki exists because one of the most far-reaching trafficking networks in modern history has never been fully exposed.

More than a dozen cases reveal how automated license plate readers are weaponized not against criminals—but against exes, neighbors, and ordinary citizens.

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

Why your encryption isn't enough—and what governments don't want you to understand about digital autonomy.

VPN's are not the solution they promised

Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.

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Mayo Clinic's "Ambient Listening" has been around for a couple of years, but clearly not all patients know their interactions with nurses are being passively recorded and processed by AI.

The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is associated with measurable increases in Africa, especially in areas most dependent on the agency’s support.

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