Big Brother

Presidential Candidates Should Declare Stance on "Costly Failure of the NSA's Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance Program," Says Snowden

Besides "massively invade our privacy, the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of the phone numbers we called produced only one 'significant' investigation," said Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. (Image EFF Photos/flickr/cc)

'Breathtaking Assault on Our Rights': Privacy Advocates Decry London Police Plan to Use Live Facial Recognition Cameras

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"This decision represents an enormous expansion of the surveillance state and a serious threat to civil liberties in the U.K."

Federal Study on Racial Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Confirms Warnings of Civil Liberties Groups

Julia Conley, staff writer

African American and Asian American men were misidentified 100 times as often...

'A Damning Indictment': Global Poll Shows 71% Support Regulation of Tech Giants to Protect Data Privacy

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

In a new poll released by Amnesty International, 71% of respondents expressed fear over how Big Tech is taking and using their personal data.

"People want to see an end to tech companies trampling over our right to...

New Campaign Demands Congress Probe the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance Empire' of Amazon

Contract for the Web: Internet Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unveils Global Plan to Battle 'Digital Dystopia'

Unprecedented 'Architecture of Surveillance' Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Report

'The Business of Building Walls': New Report Shows Companies Cashing In on Europe's Expanding Anti-Migrant Barriers

Time to 'Break Facebook Up,' Sanders Says After Leaked Docs Show Social Media Giant 'Treated User Data as a Bargaining Chip'

US Agencies Sued Over Secretive Use of Facial Recognition and Other 'Dystopian Surveillance Technology'

Saying He Would Return to US for Fair Trial, Snowden Wants People to Know 'Why I Did What I Did'

Targeting PATRIOT Act Provision, Rights Groups Urge House Dems to Block NSA From Collecting Americans' Phone Records

30+ Rights Groups Launch Campaign Demanding Law Enforcement Ban on 'Authoritarian and Invasive' Facial Recognition Technology

Trump Mulling 'Uniquely Dystopian' Proposal to Use AI to Identify Mental Health Issues as Risk Factors for Gun Violence

Fueling Calls for Ban, Even a Security Industry Group Thinks Police Partnerships With Amazon Ring Are Dangerous

'A Dystopian Surveillance State Being Built in Plain Sight': Pentagon Tests Radar-Equipped Balloons to Spy on Vehicles Across Midwest

Further

Trolling the NSA

Privacy advocates kicked off a new anti-surveillance campaign in style by floating an airship reading "Illegal Spying Below" - complete with helpful arrow - over the NSA's massive data center in Utah. Dubbed "the maiden patrol of the first anti-surveillance activist air force," the flight marked the launch of Stand Against Spying , a project by Electronic Frontier Foundation, Greenpeace, the Tenth Amendment Center and 20 more groups that seeks to outlaw mass surveilance, reform the FISA court,...