The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern
The NYPD is increasingly turning to DNA to help solve crimes. And it's worked: The science has helped develop investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court. But as the police have…
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Push to solve gun cases fuels rapid growth of New York's DNA database
New York City is building a vast, unregulated DNA database that police are already using to connect suspects to evidence from crime scenes across the five boroughs. In the last five years, the number…
If The FBI Has Your Biometrics, It Doesn't Have to Tell You
A new rule will prevent millions of people from finding out if their fingerprints, iris scans and other biometric information is stored in a massive federal database. The FBI’s Next Generation Identi…
Police given access to DHS's massive biometric database
According to an article in Texas Public Radio, law enforcement will now have access to DHS's massive biometric database. "Texas law enforcement are now getting a big assist from the federal…
Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users
Your smartphone may have some apps that are continuously listening inaudible, high-frequency ultrasonic sounds from your surroundings and they know where you go, what you like and dislike — all witho…
Workplace Surveillance Is Being Positioned As The New Office ‘Perk”
Alice describes her office as a “ panopticon ” — a structure built for total surveillance. Your office may be one, too. Whether through “voluntary” corporate wellness programs, smart badges that reco…
Dr. Joseph Farrell on Common Core & The New World Order - Our Interesting Times Podcast
Dr. Joseph Farrell returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss Rotten to the (Common) Core: Public Schooling, Standardized Tests, and the Surveillance, a book he co-wrote with Gary Lawrence. We talk …
The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them
Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of A…
To Serve AT&T and Comcast, Congressional GOP Votes to Destroy Online Privacy
CLARIFYING EVENTS in politics are often healthy even when they produce awful outcomes. Such is the case with yesterday’s vote by House Republicans to free internet service providers (ISPs) – primaril…
Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears
Approximately half of adult Americans’ photographs are stored in facial recognition databases that can be accessed by the FBI, without their knowledge or consent, in the hunt for suspected criminals.…
FBI Grilled On Extent Of Its Facial Recognition Program
The FBI took fire from privacy advocates and members of Congress Wednesday over how it characterizes its face recognition program, which has allowed agents to access and algorithmically match the pho…
Palantir Enables Immigration Agents to Access Information From the CIA
As The Intercept reported on March 2, Palantir is building a $41 million data platform called Investigative Case Management that allows ICE agents, including those in the agency’s primary deportati…
NSA Whistleblower William Binney on The Sean Hannity Radio Show (3/6/2017)
William Binney on wiretapping claim: "President Trump is absolutely right!"
Palantir Provides the Engine for Donald Trump’s Deportation Machine
IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT is deploying a new intelligence system called Investigative Case Management (ICM), created by Palantir Technologies, that will assist in President Donald Trump’s e…
Judge Allows Claims Over Google Face Scans
A federal judge in Illinois refused Monday to dismiss a class-action lawsuit claiming Google illegally collects face geometry scans from photographs taken on its smartphones without users’ knowledge.…
How Many Times Has the Government Spied on You Today?
In this WhoWhatWhy Podcast, Jennifer Granick, the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, talks to Jeff Schechtman about the technology that tracks and stores ema…
How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World
Palantir has never masked its ambitions, in particular the desire to sell its services to the U.S. government — the CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s vent…
Retail store demands everyone submit to cop run facial recognition before gaining entry
A retail store in St. Louis called Motomart is demanding customers submit to having their faces scanned before they're allowed entry! Think about what that means, police are identifying every sin…
Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers
Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that ident…
Vizio Smart TVs Continuously Tracked Viewers Without Consent
Vizio, one of the world’s biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people…