ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify as a personal chat room to get around various restrictions. It was mentioned, somewhat in passing, on the "How to do Everything" podcast last October, where someone...

Northern Ireland’s so-called marching season is usually petering out by now. This year looks to be different. On Sunday 27 September, after a 28-year wait and a flurry of last-minute legal challeng…

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests. More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.dk🇳🇱 Dutch: Chatcontrole Table of contents: The End of the P...

As often seems to happen when ministers are being hauled over the coals for their decision making, Cabinet Office record keeping policies have been back in the news. As I reported in The Times back…

Under the draft laws, tech firms face fines if they do not give users the option to switch off algorithms.

In this digital age, encryption is essential to protect our privacy rights. That’s why we’re taking legal action against the Government’s attempts to break it.

An independent review of the HMD Fuse, marketed as the World's Safest Smartphone.

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will make internet access contingent on age, expand the use of in...

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Palantir’s UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in controversial data pilot

How do you tell friend from foe in a split second? These beautifully designed WWII guides used silhouettes and vehicle details into a system for recognizing tanks, planes, and ships on sight.

Lauren Carter says her tattoos on post-mastectomy patients are flagged as nudity and banned.

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

Cole won a British Soap award for her role in the soap, and appeared in many comedies, dramas and stage productions Actress Stephanie Cole, best known for roles in Coronation Street, Waiting for God and Open All Hours, has died aged 84. She also appeared in the prisoner-of-war drama Tenko, A Bit of a Do and Doc Martin. Continue reading...

The government’s policy on neither confirm nor denying whether it has ordered Apple to provide ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted messages and data stored on Apple’s iCloud is “farcical”, a court heard to...

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

Psychology researcher Peter Gray accuses his ex-colleague of stoking a moral panic.

She found a future in the internet’s past with a Tumblr blog of animated texts, a revolt against the clean minimalism of contemporary design aesthetics.

Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a press conference on Monday that the sites included 1,200 people’s likenesses in “hyper-realistic” sexual imagery.