News & Commentary about Surveillance Technologies

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Aug 30, 2017

Why Are Border Sheriffs Rushing to Adopt Iris-Recognition Technology?

Aug 23, 2017

Artificial Intelligence at Any Cost Is a Recipe for Tyranny

Aug 10, 2017

Airlines Should Decline to Participate in the Government’s Airport Face Recognition Program

Aug 7, 2017

Baltimore Police Caught By Their Own Body Cameras Planting Evidence: Lessons

CBP officer at customs comparing IDs with woman's real face

Aug 4, 2017

What’s Wrong With Airport Face Recognition?

Jul 20, 2017

Lessons From the Minnesota Shooting Body Camera Activation Failure

May 23, 2017

ICE Using Powerful Stingray Surveillance Devices In Deportation Searches

Silhouette of woman holding phone behind the wheel

May 3, 2017

A New Implication of Cellphone Video: Citizens Taping Each Other For Police

May 1, 2017

How Technology Workers Are Organizing to Resist Trump

Mar 30, 2017

ACLU Issues Guide for Defense Attorneys on Unconstitutional Government Use of Bulk Hacking