The UN and Red Cross Are Calling for Restrictions on AI Drones and Killer Robots
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout In a world where autonomous weapons can choose targets on their own, data can put us all at risk, a…
What Deflock? A Week Of Action Confronts The AI Surveillance State
Mike Ludwig, Truthout. A Kansas activist discovered that police tracked him with Flock-style cameras after he wrote an op-ed criticizing them. The op-ed Canyen Ashworth wrote last September may have…
How Flock Is Building America’s Private Surveillance Infrastructure
AT and AB, Left Voice Flock is building one of America’s largest surveillance networks. It represents a new tool for preserving capital’s power and wealth. In 2017 Garrett Langley, along…
First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI. Police in cities across…
FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications
Jeremy Busby & Isabella Lucia Maitino Truthout/TheAppeal Congress is grappling with the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the controversial program that allows the U.S.…
SCOTUS Ruling Could Be Bad News for Flock — But Won’t Stop Mass Surveillance
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Organizers across the country are using every tool in their arsenal against Flock surveillance cameras. Civil rights attorneys say a…
Tech Oligarchs Are Helping DHS Set Up Authoritarian Surveillance State, Report Says
Maurizio Guerrero Prism Abetted by surveillance tools created by a power-hungry tech oligarchy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is laying the groundwork for an authoritarian state that is dismantling…
Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women. In…
Why Power Analysis Is Key To Fighting ICE
Deep research is key to identifying ICE’s pillars of support and building the power necessary to topple them. James L. VanHise for Waging Nonviolence The ICE campaign to round up…
DHS is Buying Access To Real-Time Location Data—The Latest Expansion Of Its “Invasive” Surveillance Technology
The new $2.9 million contract with Penlink PLX allows Trump’s Homeland Security Task Force to intercept, aggregate, and analyze calls, texts, and web activity to track people’s movements Maurizio Guerrero…
‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House Democrats Help GOP Send Trump Spying Bill to Senate
Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams Dozens of Democrats in the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives helped the GOP send a key spying bill to the Senate on Wednesday, earning sharp…
In Dead of Night, Johnson Tries—But Fails—to Ram Through Domestic Spying Bill for Trump
The president and GOP House speaker wanted a 5-year extension of a despised domestic spying bill. Instead, they got just two weeks. “Now, they will have to fight in daylight…
Ice’s Israeli Spyware Expansion Signals A New Era Of Domestic Surveillance
Zero-click phone hacking tools once used abroad are now confirmed inside the United States — raising urgent civil liberties concerns. ScheerPsot Staff In a quiet but deeply consequential admission, U.S.…
Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files
The moves could violate rules that bar intelligence agencies from gathering information on Americans inside the U.S., some officials said.
Firm Selling Israel’s Spy Tech Woos Europe’s Cops
Israel and its support network thrive on war. As the EU’s leading players are dedicated to building a war economy, it is grimly logical that they are looking to Israel…