News & Commentary about Privacy and Surveillance

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A police car behind a car it has pulled over alongside a highway

Nov 24, 2025

New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency

Nov 13, 2025

Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell

Nov 4, 2025

Digital Driver’s Licenses Threaten to Create a “Great Internet Lockdown”

A computer screen with a box reading "Please enter a reason for this search"

Oct 31, 2025

Surveillance Supporters Tout Police Audit Logs But They’re Not an Effective Check and Balance

Man looking in car rear-view mirror, warily

Oct 24, 2025

Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments

Police being grilled on Flock at Austin City Council meeting

Aug 21, 2025

I’m Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses

Aug 18, 2025

Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance

License plate readers on the back of a police car

Jul 23, 2025

Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”

Pedestrians walking through Times Square.

Oct 24, 2024

DHS Focus on "Soft Targets" Risks Out-of-Control Surveillance

The National Security Agency seal is displayed on a mobile phone screen.

Apr 25, 2024

How is One of America's Biggest Spy Agencies Using AI? We're Suing to Find Out.