#surveillance

An automated license-plate reader camera mounted on a roadside pole

An Illinois police chief tracked a woman's ex 140 times on Flock, with no warrant required

A McHenry County police chief faces felony charges for using Flock's plate-reader network to track people he knew. The case is fueling a push for warrants.

Mozilla *Privacy Not Included graphic illustrating a car as a privacy nightmare, with data flowing out of the vehicle.

Security·last month

Your car logs every hard brake, and the FTC just banned GM from selling it for five years

Connected cars collect location, driving behavior, in-cabin audio, and synced contacts, then route it to automaker clouds, brokers, and insurers. Here's how to stop it.

US military personnel walking with smartphones, illustrating phone location data exposure

Policy·last month

Adversaries are tracking US troops with the same phone-location data advertisers buy

A Wired investigation and a CENTCOM letter to Senator Wyden confirm enemies are tracking US troops through commercial phone location data. Here's how the broker pipeline works.

London City Hall and a Metropolitan Police officer, illustrating the Mayor's intervention in the Met procurement process.

Policy·last month

Sadiq Khan blocked a £50M Met Police deal with Palantir. Scotland Yard had only talked to one supplier.

London's mayor cited a 'clear and serious breach' of procurement rules and stopped the Metropolitan Police from awarding Palantir a £50M AI intelligence contract on May 21.

Policy·2 months ago

DHS used a customs summons to demand a Canadian's Google data over anti-ICE posts. ACLU sued May 4.

ACLU sued in N.D. Cal. to block a 1930s tariff-act subpoena targeting a Canadian who hasn't been to the US since 2015. Google has not said whether it complied.