When I woke up yesterday morning, I found myself humming, “There’s got to be a morning after if we can hold on through the night,” the theme from the Poseidon Adventure. I was not feeling particularly optimistic, and I made a point of not watching the news yesterda so I could avoid all the finger-pointing…
Category: U.S.
EFF Lawsuit Discloses Documents Detailing Government’s Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
Aaron Mackey of EFF writes: Despite rebranding a federal program that surveils the social media activities of immigrants and foreign visitors to a more benign name, the government agreed to spend more than $100 million to continue monitoring people’s online activities, records disclosed to EFF show. Thousands of pages of government procurement records and related…
Without Knowledge or Consent
Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives — ProPublica by Corey G. Johnson ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published at ProPublica. For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information…
Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You
Todd Feathers reports: A brand new way of being surveilled could be coming to a store near you—a facial recognition system designed to detect when retail workers have anomalous interactions with customers. About a month ago, Israel-based Corsight AI began offering its global clients access to a new service aimed at rooting out what the…