Police buy surveillance for terrorists. It snags jaywalkers instead. EFF's latest newsletter rips the mask off this endless mission creep.
Europe's borders are morphing into AI sentinels. Travelers get scanned—face, gait, veins—from 200 meters away, no pit stop needed.
Billions evaporate into healthcare fraud each year—like ghosts in the system. CDT just dropped comments to CMS demanding smarter data and tech fixes, without trampling privacy.
Access Now's Digital Security Helpline fielded 1,452 urgent calls in 2023 alone, mostly from activists dodging state surveillance. Arzu Geybulla knows that terror intimately; now she's leading the charge from exile.
Picture this: your most private Instagram chats, suddenly naked to Meta's prying eyes. The company just killed off its opt-in encryption, and it's a gut-wrenching blow to the privacy we need for AI's bright future.
What if the phones that toppled dictators are now propping up spy states? A decade after the Arab Spring, its networked hope has fueled a booming global surveillance industry.
An email from a 'trusted source' dangles credentials and cash data. Two Egyptian journalists—jailed critics—fell prey to this hack-for-hire nightmare from 2023-2024.
Egyptian journalists in exile aren't safe from digital spies. A fresh hack-for-hire phishing blitz, tied to Asian operators, shows how regimes outsource repression.
Cookies track you relentlessly, but EU regs? A patchwork mess. Here's why big ad tech still laughs to the bank.
Picture this: your vote's digital trail exposed because admins swapped passwords like trading cards. Italy's first GDPR fine on a processor reveals the high stakes ahead.
Everyone's eyeing those WiFi 7 beasts for faster streams and smarter homes. But hold up—a government ban might nuke firmware updates, leaving your new toy vulnerable and obsolete.
Over 212 million Brazilians online, all under LGPD's gaze since its 2018 passage. If you're GDPR-ready, you're mostly set—but don't sleep on the extras.