• Oct 3, 2022
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Surveillance,

Burgeoning Mass Surveillance in the US by Police, Immigration, Customs, and Military

A couple of weeks ago, the PIA blog had a long and detailed post about Fog Reveal. Long story short, Fog Reveal provides law enforcement with easy and often warrantless access to the precise geolocation of hundreds of millions of US citizens. Significantly, it is able to do that using standard advertising identifiers employed by … Continue reading “Burgeoning Mass Surveillance in the US by Police, Immigration, Customs, and Military”

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  • Mar 9, 2022
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Genetics, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

The Ultimate Privacy Betrayal: Personal DNA Used for Undisclosed Purposes, without Permission

As this blog has reported, one of the biggest threats to privacy is surveillance advertising. It works by tracking everything people do online — which sites they visit, what they do there. It draws its power from aggregating these tiny pieces of seemingly innocuous information to build up a detailed profile of what we do, … Continue reading “The Ultimate Privacy Betrayal: Personal DNA Used for Undisclosed Purposes, without Permission”

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  • Aug 3, 2019
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Facial recognition concerns go mainstream in the US, as cities and companies bring in bans

Recently, FaceApp was much in the headlines. It allows users to submit photos of faces and modify them in interesting ways – making peple look older, or younger, or changing their expression. It was undoubtedly a cool use of AI technology. But what was most interesting about the episode is how quickly people realized that … Continue reading “Facial recognition concerns go mainstream in the US, as cities and companies bring in bans”

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