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Latest in surveillance

Artificial Intelligence

Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”

Police Use of Facial Recognition Backfires Spectacularly When It Renders Them Unable to Convict Alleged Murderer

Trump Admin Announces Plans to Build Database of Migrant DNA

Artificial Intelligence

Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students’ Homes

By Victor Tangermann

Home Security Startup Sauron Secures Funding for All-Seeing Eye

By Frank Landymore

Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Using AI Surveillance to Catch Students Vaping Inside Bathrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the “Most Orwellian Company of All Time”

By Frank Landymore

The Tesla Workers Dealing With Autopilot Data Are Treated So Strangely You Won’t Believe It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

Project 2025’s AI Policies Are a Baffling Stew of Grievance and Contradictions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Admits That Maybe Surveiling Everything You Do on Your Computer Isn’t a Brilliant Idea

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Announces Feature That Records Everything You Do on Your Computer for AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Caught Selling Data to Government Spies While Complaining About Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

Robots and Machines

Clever Thieves Using WiFi Jammers to Shut Down Those Crappy Security Cameras You Bought on Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark

By Frank Landymore

Alarming New Satellite Can Spy on Individual People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NYPD Deploys Villainous-Looking Dalek in Subway System

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The NYPD Says It’s Going to Spy on Labor Day Parties Using Drones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scary New Robot Can Climb Walls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

AI Isn’t Magic, It’s Being Used to Spy on You, Experts Warn

By Frank Landymore

Facial Recognition Used to Evict Single Mother for Taking Night Classes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lawsuit Accuses NFL of Compiling Huge Database of Lewd Photos of Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Volkswagen Refused to Track Car with Kidnapped Child Until Owner Renewed GPS Subscription

By Frank Landymore

Duke Professor Welcomes the “Promising” Future of Employers Reading Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

Iran Apparently Using Facial Recognition to Catch Women Breaking Hijab Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There’s a Ridiculously Easy Way to Bypass Louisiana’s New Porn Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Man Accuses Cops of Throwing Him in Jail Based on False Facial Recognition Match

By Frank Landymore

US Gov to Crack Down on “Bossware” That Spies On Employees’ Computers

By Frank Landymore

Facial recognition

Casinos to Use Facial Recognition to Keep “Problem Gamblers” Away

By Frank Landymore

Churches Using “Shameware” Apps to Make Sure Members Don’t Watch Porn

By Frank Landymore

New TV Show Made From Viral Ring Camera Surveillance Footage

By Frank Landymore

Robots and Machines

Airbnb Denies That Woman’s Rental Was Filled With Hidden Cameras

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Woman Arrested for Murdering Boyfriend After Tracking Him With Apple AirTag

By Noor Al-Sibai

Senator Says There’s a Secret Program Spying on Americans’ Money Transfers

By Victor Tangermann

Apple Employees Are Unionizing and They’re Using Android Phones to Keep Apple From Spying on Them

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Created Creepy Algorithm to Predict Which Specific Teens Would Get Pregnant

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Head of the CIA Says It’s Been Doing Mysterious Cryptocurrency Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robots and Machines

Tech Exec Brags That New Phone’ Cameras Will Always Be Watching You

By Noor Al-Sibai

Woman Freaks Out After Discovering an Apple Tracking Device on Her Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

Britney Spears’ Dad Allegedly Bugged Her Phone and Recorded Her Bedroom

By Tony Ho Tran

Apple Is Delaying Plans to Scan Phones for Child Abuse Material

By Victor Tangermann

Facial recognition

Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Says the Military Is Secretly Spying on Americans

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla Helps Cops Catch Man Who Committed Racial Hate Crime

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

China Is Blanketing Every Public Space in Spy Cameras

By Dan Robitzski

The Military Is Buying People’s Location Data From Popular Phone Apps

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon Announces Security Drone That Flies Around Your Home

By Dan Robitzski

Facial recognition

UK Court Slams Automatic Facial Recognition Tech as “Unlawful”

By Dan Robitzski

Democrats Accused of Letting Cops Access Americans’ Browsing Histories

By Dan Robitzski

Hong Kong Is Already Being Censored by China’s “Great Firewall”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Speak Out Against China’s GATTACA-esque DNA Collection

By Dan Robitzski

China Is Building a Genetic Database of Every Man in the Country

By Dan Robitzski

Cops Are Using Military Spy Planes to Surveil BLM Protesters

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

By Dan Robitzski

China Is Installing Surveillance Cameras Inside People’s Homes

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

Toys “R” Us Says Tech Used to Spy on Shoppers Ignores Children

By Kristin Houser

Watch Protestors Kill a Drone Using Hundreds of Laser Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Robots and Machines

The FBI Reportedly Thinks Israel Spied on Trump’s Phone

By Dan Robitzski

A Trump Adviser Wanted Microsoft to Spy on World Governments

By Dan Robitzski

Police Drone Caught Barking Orders at Chinese Driver

By Kristin Houser

Robots and Machines

Wired: It’s Time for War Between Humanity and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

UK Watchdog Is Worried Government Will Deploy Lip-Reading CCTVs

By Dan Robitzski