Sunday Commentary: Staff Pushing for New Cameras over Objections from Police Accountability Commission
Back in December, I wrote a commentary questioning the sacrifice of privacy in favor of surveillance, the…
Audit Finds that Law Enforcement Violates State Law against License Plate Surveillance Technology
By Linh Nguyen Sacramento – An audit requested by Senator Scott Wiener finds that law enforcement agencies…
ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays
The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays….
California Governor Signs Landmark Bill Halting Facial Recognition on Police Body Cams
AB 1215 will keep inaccurate, biased, and invasive surveillance technology from being used against the public with…
A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology
By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the…
The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong
by Jon Callas This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal…
Adding a Ghost User to Our Encrypted Communications Is No ‘Crocodile Chip’
By Jon Callas Note: This is part three of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas…
When You Have Data, They Will Come
By Jon Callas Note: This is part two of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas…
The ‘Ghost User’ Ploy to Break Encryption Won’t Work
By Jon Callas Note: This is part one of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas…
Axon Decides to Ban Facial Recognition on Body Cameras
Axon, a maker of officer-worn body cameras used by many United States police departments, today announced that…
The Hypocrisy of William Barr’s Spying Claims
By Ashley Gorski Discussing the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation, Attorney General William Barr recently claimed…
SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance
SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) – Today,…
Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology
By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold…
Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data
By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street,…
Congress Just Passed a Terrible Surveillance Law. Now What?
By Neema Singh Guliani Both Democrats and Republicans deserve sharp criticism for continuing to allow the NSA…
Congress Votes to Give Administration Greater Spy Powers
By Neema Singh Guliani and Elizabeth Beavers House leadership today once again caved to irresponsible fearmongering from…
Police Tracking Prescription Drugs
By Beth Schwartzapfel As drug overdose deaths continue their record climb, Missouri last month became the 50th…
Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?
By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that…
New Documents Shed Light on the Government’s Surveillance of Americans
By Ashley Gorski The ACLU today released more than a dozen new documents concerning the government’s warrantless…
Reining In President Trump’s Ability to Spy
By Ashley Gorski It’s been just over a month since Donald J. Trump assumed the enormous powers…