By Rick Findlay Coming soon. Brave Browser is set to launch a feature that prevents “bounce tracking,” a technique used by sneaky websites to circumvent…
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by Will Knight CLEARVIEW AI HAS stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to peer…
by Jack Phillips Apple announced Thursday is it planning to scan all iPhones in the United States for child abuse imagery, raising alarm among security experts…
by Adam Schwartz Clearview AI extracts faceprints from billions of people, without their consent, and uses these faceprints to help police identify suspects. This does grave…
by B.N. Frank Mikael Thalen American opposition to utility “Smart” Meters – electric, gas, and water – has been ongoing due to safety and privacy concerns. Because “Smart” Meters are…
By B.N. Frank Last September, Activist Post reported about privacy and security warnings in re Amazon Sidewalk technology. Additional information was recently published about how it operates…
By Jim Stroud I don’t normally post press releases but when I do, its because I am gravely concerned. What follows is a February 22,…
By Strange Sounds A surveillance contractor that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product that it says can locate the…
By John Hayward Top Chinese political adviser Tan Jianfeng on Tuesday called for the establishment of a national “data bank” of biometric data, including facial…
The IRS used smartphone location data from a contractor to try to track Americans without a warrant. By Joseph Cox The body tasked with oversight…
The country’s treasurer has ordered a mandatory code of conduct for tech platforms The Treasurer of Australia has ordered that country’s competition watchdog to create…
We are being told that the Internet of Things is supposed to be our future, everything is connected, everything is a data source. We are…
Many decades ago there was an issue of Mad comics that portrayed a future time when everything was done by robots and humans had no…
China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting Sunday, according to the country’s information technology…
Popular period tracking apps are sending extremely personal information to Facebook regarding women’s health and their sexual practices, according to UK-based advocacy group Privacy International. Their…
Millions of Americans brought Alexa into their homes only to learn, belatedly, that not only software, but human beings, were listening in on them. Amazon…