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A new study found that nearly every automaker is transmitting data to third-party companies, including ones specializing in advertising and tracking.

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Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Authorities increasingly monitor social media to identify individuals who pose safety risks. This curtails free speech and undermines privacy, and there is little evidence that it’s effective. We expose these programs and advocate for better safeguards.

As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

Apple challenged the UK government’s refusal to publicly confirm whether it has issued an order requiring the company to provide access to encrypted user data.

Government surveillance isn’t new, but new technologies that can detect our faces and track our movements are making it more ubiquitous. In fact, Ohio is one of the most heavily surveilled states in the country, with 62.4 cameras for every 100,000 residents.

Opposition to data centers and Flock cameras tells us something important about why normalization isn’t inevitable, write Evan Selinger and Divya Ramjee.

The fight comes at a sensitive moment for national media, which has seen reporters targeted by subpoenas and search warrants in leak probes.

A case in Norfolk, Neb., highlights how evidence from online services is fair game in the post-Roe v. Wade era.

Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteristics.

A new Siri AI feature lets newer Apple Watch models quietly listen in and deliver "high-level" summaries of your conversations.

Anthropic is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

EPIC and Consumer Federation of America published a resource highlighting how personal data affects pricing in the modern economy.

Anthropic says government-linked actors used Claude to automate surveillance, profile targets, harvest identities, and build intelligence systems in Mali, China, and Iran.

It aims to counter what one group calls “an intentional climate of fear and intimidation,” that threatens to chill participation among minority voters.

We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an irresistible tool for anti-democratic forces.

There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Gene talks with historian Matthew Guariglia about how the surveillance state got built, who it was built on first, and why opposing it now unites so many factions.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

A new Federal Trade Commission staff report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services shows they engaged in vast surveillance of consume

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access to certain online content or services.  Governments in the U.S. and around the world are increasingly adopting these restrictive

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