From the Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability: Congress passed a mandate in 2021 that will require all new cars sold later in this decade to have a built-in drunk driver detection system. This law, well-intentioned as it may be, is fraught with enormous risks to the privacy of any American who drives a car. The…
Category: Surveillance
Schools Are Normalizing Intrusive Surveillance
J.D. Tuccille writes: If war is the health of the state, as Randolph Bourne had it, then scaring the hell out of people is the health of the security state. Nothing scares people more than threats to wee ones, which is why “think of the children” is the go-to marketing hook for control-freak policies. And if children…
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time By: Aaron Sankin and Surya Mattu This article was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has…
Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory
Andy Maxwell writes: Russia has been tightening the noose on VPN services for years. Many non-compliant foreign companies exited Russia when faced with a choice; compromise your customers’ privacy, or else. Any that remained were required to submit to state regulation, cooperate fully with the authorities, while ensuring that a massive list of domains and…