Anthropic is legally contesting the Department of War's attempt to label it a supply chain risk following a dispute over AI use in surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Google and OpenAI employees are urging their leaders to join Anthropic in resisting Pentagon demands to use AI for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
The Tenth Circuit ruled that broad, non-specific digital search warrants against protesters violate the Fourth Amendment and do not grant officers qualified immunity.
The Pentagon is attempting to bully Anthropic into abandoning its AI safety principles regarding surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Cloudflare's vinext is an AI-built, Vite-powered replacement for Next.js that optimizes serverless deployment and drastically improves performance.
The Pentagon is threatening to blacklist Anthropic over the AI company's refusal to remove safety guardrails against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
An exposed codebase reveals that Persona and OpenAI have built a massive, automated identity surveillance system that feeds user biometrics and 'suspicious' activity directly to government intelligence agencies.
Musk's xAI enters the Pentagon's classified systems as the military demands AI providers drop ethical safeguards.
Rising anti-surveillance sentiment is driving a nationwide wave of physical sabotage against Flock license plate readers used for immigration tracking.
Palantir is suing a Swiss magazine to challenge reports about its failed attempts to secure government contracts in Switzerland.
The fusion of consumer smart-home technology and government power has created a pervasive surveillance state that has rendered personal privacy obsolete.
A feel-good lost-dog feature spotlights Ring’s growing surveillance network, raising fears it could easily evolve into people-tracking despite present guardrails.
Ring’s heartwarming “lost dog” Super Bowl ad masks the expansion and normalization of its AI-powered surveillance network tied to law enforcement.
Use bubblewrap to run AI coding agents with broad in-sandbox permissions but tightly scoped, project-only access on the host.
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.
TikTok’s new US privacy policy expands data collection—especially precise location and AI interactions—and extends ad targeting beyond the app via a broader ad network.
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.
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.
AI is an unregulated force multiplier in U.S. politics that will make the 2026 elections more powerful and unpredictable across campaigns, organizing, citizen action, and state control.
Microsoft blocked Unit 8200’s use of Azure and AI over mass surveillance of Palestinians, a first-of-its-kind cut to Israeli military tech access amid ongoing review.
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.
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.
