From EPIC.org: EPIC has obtained records concerning “Media Monitoring Services,” a controversial DHS project to track journalists, news outlets, and social media accounts. The records, released in EPIC’s FOIA lawsuit against the federal agency, reveal that the DHS bypassed the agency’s own privacy officials and ignored the privacy and First Amendment [Read More…]
Trevor Timm reports: In June, more than 100 Amazon employees signed a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos, strongly protesting the company’s push to sell its controversial facial recognition software, known as “Rekognition,” to local police departments around the country. The letter has now been signed by more than 450 employees, and [Read More…]
Back in June, 2015, I posted a link to an article on “surveillance capitalism.” Did you take note at the time? This week, Rex Lee reports: Today, people, businesses, government officials, and law makers are unaware of the business model that supports their favorite technology such as smartphones and connected products [Read More…]
Kashmir Hill reports: When you go into the privacy settings on your browser, there’s a little option there to turn on the “Do Not Track” function, which will send an invisible request on your behalf to all the websites you visit telling them not to track you. A reasonable person [Read More…]