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Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

The new law prohibits technology companies from using student data to train or develop AI models and limits how companies can use that data.

Privacy advocates raised alarms as California lawmakers voted to share driver license information with a national nonprofit database. Then, the Trump administration sought trucker records from the organization.

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of concerned citizens."

They’re all over our roads and really good at helping police solve crimes, but do California’s automated license plate readers need limits?

The 3-2 decision by the Board of Supervisors followed the discovery that county surveillance data was illegally shared with the feds.

Pleasanton Police Department officials acknowledged flaws in its previous automatic license plate reading system after a public records request by an Oakland-based citizens' coalition revealed that th...

SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

Only a small fraction of the plates were associated with criminal suspects, according to police.

ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.

As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its customers — law enforcement officers.

Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

It compared the tech to Black Mirror — but it apparently didn’t exist.

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.

Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.

How standard routers are becoming the ultimate spy tools. Learn about the technology that can estimate human movement through walls using only Wi-Fi signals.

Following a CalMatters investigation and related Senate pressure, more data brokers have stopped hiding opt-out pages from consumers.

A law advancing in the California Legislature algorithmic surveillance pricing illegal. Three other states just passed such bans.

Annual report prepared by the Oakland Police Department for the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission meeting of May 7, 2026. Prepared by Omar Daza-Quiroz, Acting Deputy Chief OPD, Bureau of Investigati...

Did city leaders ignore a law prohibiting contracts with vendors that work with federal immigration agencies?

A group of researchers warns it will chill studies of tech platforms.

Some of OPD’s license plate readers have been vandalized with paint. The vandalism coincides with a nationwide pushback against surveillance.

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

On March 24th, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee of the California State Legislature gave the thumbs up to a proposal from state senator Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) to have the California State Auditor investigate the activities,

Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.

Oakland Privacy is a citizen’s coalition that works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance surveillance oversight.

Ed tech companies are required to protect California students’ privacy. This one is being fined $1.1million for violating state law.

The Guardians of Reality.

Goodbye, privacy.

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson and a host of other Democrats made the demand in a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “Your actions are abhorrent, blatantly unconstitutional, and corrosive to the functioning of a peaceful society.”

The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.

404 Media found multiple users of Zello, an app previously used by January 6 insurrectionists, linked to ICE officials. An officer at the scene of an CBP official shooting a U.S. citizen also used the app.

Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

The site, camgirlfinder, is explicitly built as a tool to let people find a model's presence on other streaming platforms. The creator says “If that is a problem for you then the sad reality is this job is not for you.”

Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

The feature could arrive as soon as this year.

“When you delete something from a server, it doesn’t get overwritten immediately”