If there’s one thing the Federal Bureau of Investigation does well, it’s mass surveillance. Several years ago, then attorney general William Barr established an internal office to curb the FBI’s abuse of one controversial surveillance law. But recently, the FBI’s long-time hater (and, ironically, current director) Kash Patel shut down the watchdog group with no […]
An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online
With the refinement of digital tools, companies are subjecting their employees to increasing levels of surveillance — and increasing risks. Now, the security of thousands of employees and their parents companies is at risk after real-time images of their computers were leaked by an employee surveillance app. On Thursday, researchers at Cybernews reported that over […]
U.S. House Panel Says China’s DeepSeek AI Is a ‘Profound Threat’ to National Security
A bipartisan House committee on Wednesday recommended placing restrictions on the export of AI models to China after concluding that DeepSeek trained its low-cost models using data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It also suggested imposing prohibitions on federal agencies procuring AI models from China, which does not seem like something that was going to happen anyway. […]
Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as a Critic of Its CEO
Madison Square Garden is home to the New York Knicks, one of the most storied performance venues in the country, and a surveillance state dystopia. Since 2018, the venue has been equipped with facial recognition tools used to identify people deemed to be potential security threats. But it also has seemingly become the go-to tool […]
‘Clearly Discrimination’: How a City Uses Fusus to Spy on Its Poorest Residents
Reporting from Toledo, Ohio — For more than seven straight hours on January 24, 2024, a Toledo cop watched the comings and goings on Leach Avenue. Officer Gerald Glesmer didn’t need to park his cruiser outside the brown brick apartments of the Weiler Homes public housing complex or walk past the patios and grassy lawns […]
Court Says Feds Must Obtain Warrant to Search FISA Spy Databases
One of the government’s most controversial warrantless spying practices does, in fact, require a warrant, according to a new federal court ruling. The decision, issued Tuesday night by the eastern district of New York Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall, comes in the case of Agron Hasbajrami, a U.S. resident who was arrested in 2011 and initially […]