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James Cameron Accused of Stealing 14-Year-Old Girl’s Face for Main Character of Billion-Dollar “Avatar” Films

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Five security cameras mounted on the corner of a building with an orange hue, angled outward for surveillance. The building has textured walls and a window below the cameras. The sky in the background is clear and light.

AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America

Multiple security cameras mounted on a textured blue wall, arranged in a grid pattern, all facing in roughly the same direction.

Man Trapped in Dystopian Nightmare Thanks to AI Surveillance Cameras Flagging His Every Move

Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps

By Frank Landymore

Black and gray police drone with four propellers and a camera mounted on the front, set against a bright red background with a yellow circle behind it. The word "POLICE" is printed in bold black letters on white strips attached to the drone's arms.

The Number of Drones Being Deployed to Surveil Anti-Trump Protestors Is Staggering

Close-up of a green-framed smart glasses lens reflecting a detailed grayscale image of an eye with visible wrinkles around it. The background features an orange grid pattern with a large yellow circle partially visible behind the glasses.

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time

A jar of Prego Traditional Italian sauce, a tall glass container filled with uncooked spaghetti, a red box labeled "The Great Questions Card Deck Family Dinner Edition," and a beige device labeled "Prego Story Connection Keeper" are arranged together against a blue grid background with an orange circle behind them.

Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family’s Intimate Conversations

By Frank Landymore

Knicks owner Jim Dolan, wearing a black jacket and white shirt, stands smiling next to a control panel with various dials, gauges, and levers.

Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years

A person with short hair wearing a dark jacket is sitting with their hands covering their face. Their wrists are secured with handcuffs. The background features a large blue circle centered behind the person, set against a red backdrop with a grid pattern.

Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude May Have Already Doomed You in Court

Close-up of a person's face on the left side, illuminated with red light, showing a serious expression. In the background on the right, a blurred figure wearing a dark hooded garment is partially visible, holding onto a vertical surface, with a blue-toned environment behind them.

Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta's plans to add facial recognition tech to its smart glasses, as part of a new feature dubbed "Name Tag," has outraged rights groups.

Huge Group of Experts Warns Meta That Its Pervert Glasses Will Enable Terrible Crimes

By Victor Tangermann

A scarecrow dressed in blue denim overalls and a red plaid shirt with straw accents at the cuffs and ankles. It wears a straw hat and has a camera lens for a face. A red bandana is tucked into the overalls' pocket. The scarecrow is set against a partly cloudy blue sky.

Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America

Meta has been hit with a class action lawsuit, accusing it of lying about prioritizing privacy with its smart glasses.

Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's home security subsidiary Ring, may have finally dethroned Pepsi's disastrous ad as the biggest Super Bowl marketing disaster.

Ring’s “Orwellian” Ad Was the Worst Super Bowl Disaster Since Kendall Jenner Handed the Cops a Pepsi

By Victor Tangermann

Ring ad showing an aerial view of a suburban neighborhood with multiple houses and streets, overlaid with blue circular digital effects indicating surveillance or search zones. Text says "Introducing Search Party."

Ring Boasts About Power to Surveil Entire Neighborhoods

The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE

Schools deploying AI surveillance systems are traumatizing kids in states with zero-tolerance laws for violent rhetoric online.

AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

By Sharon Adarlo

Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

By Sharon Adarlo

A cybernetics expert recently made a bold claim: he argues that online privacy has long since vanished, so we may as well embrace contact-tracing.

Tech Expert: Privacy Is a Myth, so We Might as Well Contact-trace

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Ron Wyden's new privacy bill would hold tech companies' CEOs responsible if they lie about protecting users' personal information.

New Privacy Bill Could Send Mark Zuckerberg to Jail

By Kristin Houser

In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a number of pop-up privacy check-up cafes.

Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes, for Some Reason

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Echo Dot Kids is illegally collecting data on minors, alleges a new FTC complaint filed by a group of privacy advocates.

Amazon Alexa: Illegally Recording Kids, Privacy Advocates Allege

By Kristin Houser

Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus just shipped tens of thousands of Touch controllers bearing hidden messages.

Hidden Messages Suggest That Facebook Sees User Privacy as a Joke

By Kristin Houser

During a recent interview with law professor Jonathan Zittrain, Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly insisted against all evidence that Facebook promotes privacy.

Mark Zuckerberg Insists That Facebook Promotes Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

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Big Tech Splits Over Privacy Issues, at Least on the Surface.

By Dan Robitzski

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

In a Shift, Apple and Amazon Say They Are in Favor of Federal Privacy Regulation

By Victor Tangermann

By Turning Down 23andMe, Immigration Activists Are Actually Being Responsible About Genetic Privacy

By Turning Down 23andMe, Immigration Activists Are Actually Being Responsible About Genetic Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Four Major Phone Carriers Just Did Something to Actually Protect Your Privacy

Four Major Phone Carriers Just Did Something to Actually Protect Your Privacy

By Kristin Houser

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

Encrypted Genomic Data Means People Can Participate in Research Without Sacrificing Privacy

By Dan Robitzski

Even Europe’s New Privacy Laws Can’t Regulate Facebook

Even Europe’s New Privacy Laws Can’t Regulate Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Just Moved 1.5 Billion Users’ Data To Avoid New Privacy Laws

Facebook Just Moved 1.5 Billion Users’ Data To Avoid New Privacy Laws

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook Updated Its Privacy Settings! And It Is a Huge Deal!*

Facebook Updated Its Privacy Settings! And It Is a Huge Deal!*

By Victor Tangermann

Smart Cities May Be The Death of Privacy As We Know It

Smart Cities May Be The Death of Privacy As We Know It

By Claudia Geib

A future society could eliminate the privacy this woman has as she looks over the city.

Welcome to 2030. I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better

By World Economic Forum

Why The Vote on Internet Privacy Means You Need a VPN

Why The Vote on Internet Privacy Means You Need a VPN

By Sarah Marquart

MIT’s Riffle Anonymity Network is Said to Best Tor in Securing Privacy

MIT’s Riffle Anonymity Network is Said to Best Tor in Securing Privacy

By Arra Dianne Hifarva