Ageless Linux is a project of deliberate civil disobedience that uses a Debian-based script to challenge the legality and ethics of California's mandatory age-verification laws.
An innocent grandmother lost her home and car after being wrongfully jailed for six months due to a facial recognition error by Fargo police.
A Florida judge ruled red-light camera laws unconstitutional because they violate due process by requiring vehicle owners to prove they weren't driving.
DeFlock is a crowdsourced mapping project dedicated to identifying and tracking Automated License Plate Readers.
The author would rather abandon most online services and rely on self-hosting than comply with mandatory identity or age verification.
The Tenth Circuit ruled that broad, non-specific digital search warrants against protesters violate the Fourth Amendment and do not grant officers qualified immunity.
Rising anti-surveillance sentiment is driving a nationwide wave of physical sabotage against Flock license plate readers used for immigration tracking.
The fusion of consumer smart-home technology and government power has created a pervasive surveillance state that has rendered personal privacy obsolete.
Ring’s heartwarming “lost dog” Super Bowl ad masks the expansion and normalization of its AI-powered surveillance network tied to law enforcement.
An Irish man with a valid US work permit is detained for months and faces deportation amid disputed paperwork and a broader ICE crackdown.
Reports of blocked anti-ICE posts on TikTok collide with a company-claimed tech outage and a new US-led governance regime, deepening user distrust without proving censorship.
ICE is reportedly using a Palantir tool fed by Medicaid and other government data to target deportations, prompting EFF to demand urgent Congressional limits on data consolidation and misuse.
Texas is pouring money into a secretive phone-tracking tool that may bypass warrant requirements, with scant evidence it solves crimes and mounting concerns it erodes constitutional privacy.
A Minneapolis resident depicts a city under aggressive ICE raids that disrupt schools and daily life, urging national pressure and support to protect residents and prevent further escalation.
ICE’s new Webloc tool enables warrantless, neighborhood-scale phone tracking using commercial data, prompting major civil liberties concerns.
ICE’s Mobile Fortify forces facial scans and keeps the photos for 15 years, even for U.S. citizens, according to a DHS document.
An AI gun detector misread a Doritos bag as a weapon, triggering an armed police response and renewing concerns about AI surveillance in schools.
U.S. and global surveillance capabilities are expanding—often controversially and with mixed effectiveness—while privacy tools race to keep up.
EU ‘Chat Control’ would mandate mass scanning of all communications, breaking encryption and rights—act now to stop it.
Deadly Gen Z–led protests over Nepal’s social media ban and corruption forced army deployment and a curfew as unrest spread beyond Kathmandu.
Social credit already exists in the West via opaque platform and financial scoring, and the real choice is to make it transparent and accountable as it becomes more interconnected.
