Automakers have entered into a controversial practice of collecting data on the driving behaviors of Americans, which is then passed on to a data broker, subsequently shared with insurance companies. Kenn Dahl, a 65-year-old resident of Seattle, Washington, found himself among many American drivers experiencing steep rises in car insurance rates. Despite being a conscientious driver with no history... 

Violent clashes have broken out at China’s biggest iPhone factory with angry workers protesting against brutal Covid rules and dismal living conditions. Hazmat-wearing officials could be seen viciously beating one man with sticks while cops desperately attempted to convince workers to return to their accommodation amid on-running protests at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou. According to livestream... 

Canada – which has a population of 38 million – has admitted to secretly tracking 33 million phones during the Covid-19 lockown, according to the National Post, citing Blacklock’s Reporter which first noted the disclosure. The country’s Public Health Agency (PHAC) did so to assess “the public’s responsiveness during lockdown measures,” according to the report. In... 

The European Commission is an EU legislative body with regulatory authority over digital technology. The EC’s eIDAS Article 45, a proposed regulation, would deliberately weaken areas of internet security that the industry has carefully evolved and hardened for over 25 years. The Article would effectively grant the 27 EU governments vastly expanded surveillance powers over internet use. The rule... 

Every inch of our planet is being watched, and incredibly sophisticated “artificial intelligence solutions” make it possible for those that are watching our planet to find whatever they want in just minutes. You can try to run, and you can try to hide, but if they really want to find you it won’t be very difficult. All around us, a global surveillance prison is being constructed. Even if you... 

As 2023 continues, the European Commission appears busy developing and running pilots for its EU Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI), which it intends to make available to all EU citizens in the near future. But while the European Commission (EC) boasts the prospective EUDI’s convenience, security, and wide range of prospective use cases in daily life, what’s less discussed is the tool’s potential... 

The Japan National Police Agency has decided to adopt AI-enhanced pre-crime surveillance cameras to bolster the security measures surrounding VIPs. This step comes in response to the commemoration of the shocking assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the rising threats posed by what the government called “lone offenders.” The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace... 

A man by the name of Brandon Jackson was locked out of his so-called “smart home” recently after Amazon shut it all down due to allegedly “racist” statements he made that were picked up by the always-listening spy devices he owns. The Amazon Ring doorbell device locked Jackson out of his own home after the Amazon device, and possibly several others, caught him saying something that the company... 

The $32 million MQ-9 Reaper drone downed in the Black Sea after a run-in with Russian fighter jets on Tuesday is the same type of aircraft used by the CIA to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul in July, 2022. Equipped for long-range surveillance missions, the unmanned spy aircraft is controlled by two pilots on the ground – sometimes as much as 5,000 miles away -can fly for 20 hours,... 

In a covert operation targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s A-50 surveillance plane, Belarusian partisans and exiled opposition members claimed responsibility for causing damage to the military aircraft. The attack, executed by two operatives using drones, was strategically aimed at the AWACS Beriev A-50U aircraft stationed at the Machulishchy air base near Minsk. The A-50 is a critical... 

The European Commission has introduced sweeping new rules that it says would shield independent media from governmental snooping and intervention. The Media Freedom Act, which was released on Friday, forbids the use of spyware and other forms of surveillance against journalists and their families as well as the search and seizure of media offices, unless it is “on the grounds of national security,”... 

A leaked document from the European Commission (EC), the executive branch of the European Union (EU), has revealed that the artificial intelligence (AI) it plans to use to mass surveil private chats for “grooming” content is expected to falsely flag content and forward it to EU investigators 10% of the time. This proposed mass surveillance of online chats has been dubbed “Chat Control” and... 

Representatives of Telegram provided the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) with access to users’ personal data in a number of cases related to child abuse and terrorism, Spiegel reported on Friday. According to the German newspaper, the data belong to suspected terrorists and child abusers. However, it is still difficult for German investigators to obtain information from representatives... 

A multi-year investigation by a dozen experts putting in 16-hour days crunching cellphone geolocation data, surveillance videos and documents has concluded what many people understood instinctively from the start — the fix was in and the 2020 election was stolen. Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips have been engaged in the battle for election integrity since they were targeted by the Obama... 

French President Emmanuel Macron has assumed a position of someone firmly against U.S. social media platforms after criticizing the addictive and harmful aspects the platforms and opposing online anonymity, the BFM TV reports. The next meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Mark Zuckerberg could thus be colder than the one in May 2018. In an interview with Le Point weekly, Macron delivered his view of...