By Matt Sledge Three major labor unions sued the federal government on Thursday to stop a sweeping social media surveillance program designed to revoke the visas and green cards of immigrants who hold “hostile attitudes”…
Campaign to stop warrantless use of license plate cameras By Dan King In August, the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced the launch of a nationwide campaign to push back against the arbitrary and unrestrained use…
Commentary by Matt Stoller “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” — Louis Brandeis The creation of a new political slush fund by titans in Silicon Valley could…
The privatization of public safety (and spy cameras) is a costly threat to all of us By Ian Firstenberg California’s constitution opens with a broad, likely familiar, proclamation added on Nov. 5, 1974. “All people…
Flock’s gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices By Matthew Guariglia Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States,…
By Joseph Cox A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring…
By Al Mayadeen English Born from decades of occupation and digital warfare, Israeli AI surveillance tech could spread the same systems of control and repression far beyond occupied Palestine. A new Israeli startup, Scanary, has…
to Spread the Word By Nick Cleveland-Stout A newly-created firm called Show Faith by Works is embarking on a “geofencing” campaign to target Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-Israel advertisements. The…
Israel’s digital Iron Dome and the narrative battle By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the “Eighth Front” of his war as the battle over truth. “Seven fronts against Iran and…
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy By Servaas Storm OpenAI’s Altman boasted that AGI can “discover new science,” because “I think we’ve cracked reasoning in the models,” adding that “we’ve a long way to…