Scott Ritter: A Farewell to Truth
The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
AI Mass Surveillance at Paris Olympics
A legal scholar's perspective on the security boon and privacy nightmare
US Prosecutors Secure Guilty Plea in First-of-Its-Kind Espionage Act Case Involving Drone Photography
The prosecution carries implications for the right to engage in photography or gather news.
Automated Apartheid: Walking Through Hebron Smart City
By Mnar Adley / MintPressNews Asilent sentinel watches over every corner in the bustling streets of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, where the ancient echoes of history…
Add Bluetooth to the Long List of Border Surveillance Technology
By Matthew Guariglia, Cooper Quintin and Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) A new report from news outlet NOTUS shows that at least two Texas counties along the U.S.-Mexico…
US Senate and Biden Admin Usher in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
By Matthew Guariglia, Andrew Crocker, Cindy Cohn and Brendan Gilligan / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) One week after it was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate has…
Biden Terrifyingly Grows Ranks of Government Spies
The White House enthusiastically backed surveillance reauthorization that despite a fresh record of routine abuses expands security agencies' spying power.
Sen. Wyden Says Spying Bill Would Force Americans to Become an ‘Agent for Big Brother’
"If you have access to any communications, the government can force you to help it spy," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
Glenn Greenwald: Rep. Warren Davidson on Militarism and Surveillance
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
House Votes To Extend Warrantless Spying Powers
An effort to force federal agencies to obtain warrants before snooping on Americans was narrowly shot down
The White House Is Wrong: Section 702 Needs Drastic Change
By Brendan Gilligan and Matthew Guariglia / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) With Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act set to expire later this month, the White House recently…
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare
Stavroula Pabst explores the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain…
Whitney Webb: Manufacturing Consent — The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”
The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far…
Face Recognition Technology Follows a Long Analog History of Surveillance and Control Based on Identifying Physical Features
Face recognition technology is the latest and most sophisticated version of biometric surveillance: using unique physical characteristics to identify individual people.
FTC Bars X-Mode From Selling Sensitive Location Data
By Adam Schwartz / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Phone app location data brokers are a growing menace to our privacy and safety. All you did was click a box while…