It took Chinese authorities just seven minutes to locate and apprehend BBC reporter John Sudworth using its powerful network of CCTV camera and facial recognition technology. This wasn’t a case of a member of the media being forcibly removed from the country. The chase was a stunt set up to i…

Nanjing city cleaners are tracked by GPS and warned about long breaks

Experts with whom we consulted confirmed New York Times reports on the Saudi capability to “collect vast amounts of previously inaccessible data from smartphones in the air without leaving a trace—including phone calls, texts, emails”—and confirmed that hacking was a key part of the Saudis’ “extensive surveillance efforts that ultimately led to the killing of [Washington Post] journalist Jamal Khashoggi.”

Un chercheur en sécurité a découvert la preuve de la surveillance en masse dans Xinjiang, une région au nord-ouest, montrant ainsi l’ampleur du suivi des habitants de la Chine, pays qui est déjà connu pour son utilisation à grande échelle de l’intelligence artificielle par le gouvernement pour la surveillance des minorités. Selon les révélations de Victor Gevers, chercheur en sécurité et co-fondateur de la Fondation GDI, la Chine suit de près les déplacements de près de 2,6 millions de personnes...

As the year draws to a close, so has EFF’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Agency about the mass phone surveillance program infamously known as “Hemisphere.” We won our case and freed up tons of records. (So did the Electronic Privacy Information Center...

Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company that Amazon bought earlier this year.

We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a…

Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region

Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.

Beijing’s underground system is planning to introduce 'bio-identification' technology including facial recognition in what it says is an effort to streamline passenger flow through its stations.

The 2010s will be remembered as the first decade in which we, the people, paid for the pleasure of welcoming Big Brother into our lives.

Amazon in June pitched its facial recognition technology as a tool for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The authenticity of the following anonymous op-ed has been verified by Medium’s editorial staff. Our columnist, Trevor Timm, has also interviewed the op-ed’s writer. You can read that here. When a…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai refused to answer a list of questions from a bipartisan group of six senators.

The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.

Five-year-old program provides government with direct access to email, messages, browser history, more