Surveillance through Push Notifications
March 6 2024The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and...
Read moreFacebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
February 1 2024Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network:
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that...
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CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules
January 31 2024In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial institutions handle personal data about their customers. The...
Read moreNSA Buying Bulk Surveillance Data on Americans without a Warrant
January 30 2024It finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Weyden. This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that...
Read morePharmacies Giving Patient Records to Police without Warrants
January 11 2024Add pharmacies to the list of industries that are giving private data to the police without a warrant.
Read moreFacial Recognition Systems in the US
January 3 2024A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. (This, of course, can all...
Read moreAI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
December 29 2023Wow:
To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos...
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Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
December 26 2023Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
Read morePolice Get Medical Records without a Warrant
December 18 2023More unconstrained surveillance:
Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier...
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Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
December 15 2023This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
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