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13 stories taggedsurveillance.
Cities That Ditched Flock Cameras Are Still Under Surveillance
Activists who won fights against one licence-plate tracking company are discovering their local governments simply switched to a different vendor, and the cameras stayed up.
Who Is Watching You Right Now, and What Are They Doing With It?
From supermarket cameras to workplace keystroke logs, surveillance of ordinary people has quietly become a growth industry. AI is making it faster, cheaper, and harder to spot.
Flock Safety's CEO Apologises After Cops Used Its Cameras to Stalk Civilians
The company behind thousands of roadside licence-plate readers admits its data was misused by law enforcement officers, including one Massachusetts officer accused of tracking an ex-girlfriend.
Smart Glasses With Hidden Cameras Are Getting Popular. Privacy Experts Are Alarmed.
Ordinary-looking eyewear that secretly records video is moving from novelty to mainstream, and the rules haven't kept up.
NSW Plans to Share Licence Photos With National Face-Matching Database
A new bill before the New South Wales parliament would connect the state to a federal facial recognition system, hand police access to toll road camera images, and let investigators apply to search seized phones and laptops. Civil liberties groups say the changes amount to mass surveillance with too few safeguards.
Apple Takes UK Government Back to Court Over Demand to Read Encrypted User Data
Apple has filed a second legal challenge against a British government order requiring access to data so heavily protected that even Apple cannot read it. The case could decide whether end-to-end encryption survives as a meaningful privacy tool in the UK.
Kmart's $89 Camera Glasses Sold Out Across Australia. Privacy Experts Are Alarmed.
A pair of smart glasses that can secretly record HD video retails for less than a restaurant dinner. Digital rights advocates say the law hasn't kept up.
Fake Bahrain Alert App Spreads Android Surveillance Malware
A fake emergency alert app targets users with sophisticated spying tools.
Western Australia Deploys Live Facial Recognition at Bus Station, Makes First Real-Time Arrest
A camera on a police van scanned hundreds of faces a minute at a Perth transit hub. Civil liberties groups say the trial raises serious questions about bias, accuracy, and surveillance creep.
Moroccan Intelligence Insider Blows Whistle on Years of Pegasus Spyware Targeting
A former spy describes how Morocco reportedly used phone-hacking software since 2017 to surveil journalists, human rights workers, and foreign politicians, including cabinet ministers in Spain and officials in France.
Meta's Patent Bid: An AI That Listens All Day and Guesses Your Mood
A newly filed Meta patent describes software that would listen to a user's voice, infer their emotional state, and log it against time, location, and phone activity.
MSG's Secret Celebrity Database Tagged Nearly 40,000 People by Sexuality, Race, and 'Risk' Level
A data breach at Madison Square Garden exposed an internal tracking list that sorted celebrities, public figures, and ordinary visitors using labels including 'LGBTQIA,' 'DO NOT HOST,' and a personal 'risk' score.
This Researcher Is Designing Clothes That Break Facial Recognition Software
A security researcher plans to unveil clothing patterns that confuse the AI systems governments use to track people in public — without their knowledge or consent.