This Smartphone App Helps Undocumented Immigrants With ICE Raids
A smartphone app which has been on our radar screen for the past year is now available in Spanish with...
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Why Google’s New AI Censorship Platform Should Terrify You
by Virgil Vaduva Today Google proudly touted the release of Perspective, an AI-backed platform an API which will allow content publishers...
This Mobile App Helps You Fight The U.S. Police State
A small startup that has been around for less than a year has created a free mobile app aimed at...
West Virginia Supreme Court Expands DUI To Private Property
West Virginians can be charged with drunk driving on their own private land, even if they represent no danger to...
EU to Create Bitcoin Registry to Track Users’ Identities And Wallets, Fight Terrorism
The European Commission is proposing the creation of a database that will hold information on those using virtual currencies and...
Makers of Cell 411 Mobile App Vow to Protect RNC Demonstrators From Police Abuse
It turns out that Cell 411 Inc., the makers behind the emergency response app Cell 411 are concerned that demonstrators at...
Denver Cops Abused Confidential Databases To Get Dates, Stalk Women
Denver Police officers caught using a confidential database for personal reasons should face stiffer penalties, the city’s independent monitor argued...
Obama: Police Must Have Backdoors Into Smartphones
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a “passionate” case for mobile devices to be built in such a way...
Ohio Driver Arrested For Empty Hidden Car Compartment
Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually...
VIDEO: Edward Snowden Speaks Live at Liberty Forum, Talk Surveillance And State Abuse
On February 20, 2016, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed more than 500 attendees at the Free State Project’s 9th annual...
Apple Stands up to FBI, Writes Letter to Customers About Importance of Encryption
by Virgil Vaduva For all the criticism Apple receives from users about its products, design or pricing, there is one thing...
The FBI and NYPD Interrogated Me for Simply Reading an Article About ISIS
On Thursday, December 10th, 2015, two NYPD detectives interrogated me in the hallway of my apartment building under the suspicion...
License Plate Readers Are Turning Police Into Mobile Debt Collectors And Data Miners
Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to...
FBI Ran Website Serving Thousands of Child Porn Images
WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described as one of the Internet’s largest...
Homeland Security Asking Hotel Staff to Report Customers for Too Many Condoms
Screen capture from the film The Lives of Others, based on the lives of citizens monitored by the Stasi in...
Policing Robots to Hit The Streets in California
The robots might one day rise up and take over, but a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of...
BREAKING: After Cops Blamed Encryption And Edward Snowden, They Discover That Terrorists Used Plaintext SMS
In the wake of the tragic events in Paris last week encryption has continued to be a useful bogeyman for...
Police Body Cams Come Pre-Installed With Malware
Police Body Cameras Shipped with Pre-Installed Conficker Virus Old Windows worm resurfaces in modern IoT devices US-based iPower Technologies has...
Secret Service Can Use Cell-Phone Trackers And Stingrays Without Warrants
US President Barack Obama, surrounded by US Secret Service agents, walks to greet guests after arriving on Air Force One...
Americans Would be Fine With Police Internet Spying if They Were Notified
Despite increasingly heated rhetoric from opponents of government surveillance, a recent survey shows that most Americans would be okay with many kinds of...
