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…
Glenn Greenwald: Can’t-Miss of 2023 — COVID, #TwitterFiles, Govt Spying & More
Glenn Greenwald recounts the stories he covered in 2023 that went the most under discussed.
The Surveillance Showdown That Fizzled
By India McKinney / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Like the weather rapidly getting colder outside, the fight over renewing, reforming, or sunsetting the mass surveillance power of Section 702 has…
Glenn Greenwald: How Congress Just Destroyed Your Privacy Rights
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble
The Never Ending War on Terror Targets Freedom
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble The revelations of people like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and John Kiriakou have allowed the…
The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand
Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.
The House Intelligence Committee’s Surveillance ‘Reform’ Bill Is a Farce
By India McKinney / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked up…