Big Brother Watch FOI'd UK police forces. Between 2021 and 2025 they arrested at least 62,199 people for communications offences — roughly 34 arrests every single day. About 18,500 were charged. 12,...
Language tucked into the Senate's 2027 defense bill would let the Pentagon hire outside cybersecurity firms to penetrate computer networks the military chooses. Contractors would work under US Cyber C...
Concord, New Hampshire put private surveillance devices in public-housing apartments. The Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority bought them from a company called Mînut. They record movement and...
Your deposit is not spare inventory for the Commission. In Paris on Friday, Ursula von der Leyen told French business leaders that Europe has about €10 trillion in household bank deposits "sitting o...
California did not just pass a privacy rule. It wrote AB 2624 — critics call it the Stop Nick Shirley Act — then Gov. Newsom signed it. The law expands Safe at Home to immigration-support nonprofi...
Flock was never the whole story. Sen. Josh Hawley just widened his AI surveillance investigation beyond Flock Safety to Motorola Solutions, Verkada, and Axon Enterprise. Same demand: how these private...
As of September 1, Barnet Hill Academy in London left the private sector and became a voluntary-aided school — almost entirely on the public payroll. The uniform policy stayed. Girls in Year 3 (age ...
Flock Safety now runs something like 120,000 automated license plate readers across American towns, feeding roughly 20 billion plate scans a month into a searchable database. Nobody voted for that. It...
VulnCheck bought an $88 "Deep Orange" router on Amazon from a New York seller. White-label ZBT hardware out of Shenzhen. Firmware from 2019. Two factory implants sitting in it. Not a later hack. Built...
Portugal's president signed Law 58/2026, the so-called "burqa law." It bans clothing "intended to conceal or obstruct the display of the face" in public. It takes effect September 23. Fines run €150...