Tag: Mass Surveillance

To "better understand mandatory stay-at-home orders," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased Americans' phone location data at the height of the...

While various politicians and interest groups wallow in the moral panic over TikTok and “the children,” much closer to everyone’s home were the revelations...

The bipartisan moral panic over TikTok now looks like it will have official legislation to enforce its fears and censor what Americans can see...

While the political class continues to gin up a moral panic over Big Tech, social media and other such hobgoblins elsewhere, the government itself...

The great Chinese spy balloon incident ended with a U.S. fighter jet shooting it down off the South Carolina coast. Was this the grave national...

While government officials in Washington continue to do nothing about Uncle Sam’s voracious, and constitutionally suspect, data harvesting practices, there is some hope at...

I’ve written about government surveillance many times in this space, providing links to important research work that groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)...

It should be no surprise that state-sponsored surveillance is getting easier, more pervasive and more intrusive. Increasingly sophisticated and cheap, technology makes it possible,...

Federal agents investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol may have accessed the records of every person who used a debit...

Government and law enforcement have an insatiable appetite for private data they use, allegedly, to find bad guys, protect communities and generally be quiet...