Tag: Surveillance State
NYCLU Voices Concern After Amazon Ring Added to NYPD’s Ever-widening Arsenal of Surveillance Tools
The New York Police Department has added crowdsourced footage captured from the Amazon Ring video doorbell...
Blizzard Ups Online Gaming Surveillance Ante in Overwatch 2
Gaming industry giant Activision Blizzard is implementing certain surveillance mechanics in its arcade-style...
RCMP Deploys Spyware That Enables Mics, Cameras to Eavesdrop on Targets, Agency Admits
Canada’s federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), has admitted it utilizes spyware...
New UK and EU Cars to Be Equipped With AI Speed Surveillance and Intervention Devices Starting in July
New cars sold in Europe are to be fitted with a forcible speed controlling device as a safety measure...
Dallas Airport Installs Panopticon Facial Recognition Robots to Enforce Mask Mandates
Dallas Love Field Airport has installed two AI-operated robotic surveillance towers that, besides providing...
FBI Sinks $27 Million Into Social Media Surveillance Tech
The FBI has purchased $27 million worth of licenses for Babel X, a tracking tool from a Virginia-based...
Google Bans Android Apps Found Secretly Harvesting Location, Email, Phone Number Data
Google has removed several spyware-containing apps from its AppStore after an international data scam...
Italy Foreshadows Mandatory Vaccines and Expansion of Passports to Supermarkets
Italy’s Prime Minister foreshadowed a nationwide vaccine acceptance mandate after the injections are...
Canada Opens Bids for Biometric-Based Border Control Under Pandemic Guise
The Trudeau government opened bidding for a contractor specializing in biometrics to work with the Canada...
Japan Will Track Media With GPS, Deport for Non-Compliance at Tokyo Olympics Amid COVID Hysteria
Foreign reporters attending the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which are postponed until July and August of this...
Chinese-Owned TikTok Will Now Collect Biometric Data on US Users
Video-based social influencing platform TikTok, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, will now collect...