Study: Trump’s paid Peter Thiel’s Palantir $1.5B so far to build ICE’s mass-surveillance network
Perhaps no other company has profited more from the Trump administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants — and US citizens of similar appearance — than Peter Thiel‘s Palantir. A recent investigation, conducted by Mijente, revealed the US government has…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Guards Suspected Of Falsifying Logs: Report
Surveillance video reviewed after the death showed the Metropolitan Correctional Center guards never made some of the checks noted in the log, a source s…
This City’s Surveillance System Puts Communities Of Color Under Constant Watch
The Citizen Virtual Patrol, a 24/7 public surveillance system, lets anyone watch the city’s streets from anywhere at any time, through as many as 127 cameras.
Slides, actors, and surveillance cameras: My day at the department store of the future
House of Showfields, an “experiential” store that opened in New York this summer, is like Sleep No More—but for selling you things. It begins with a black-and-white striped slide—like one you might see on a children’s playground. I have no idea where it goes.…
How to ditch Google Chrome for Firefox
It might be time to break your Google Chrome habit. Though Google’s browser is the most popular browser by an overwhelming margin, there are some good reasons to switch, especially if you care about privacy. The Washington Post recently described Chrome as “a…
Data Mining Home Water Usage; Your Water Meter Knows You a Bit Too Well
The average person has become depressingly comfortable with the surveillance dystopia we live in. For better or for worse, they’ve come to accept the fact that data about their lives is constantly being collected and analyzed. We’re at the point where a sizab…
Cisco’s failure to heed whistleblower’s warning about security defects in video surveillance software costs the company $8.6m in fines
In 2008, a security researcher named James Glenn warned Cisco that its video surveillance software had a defect that made it vulnerable to a trivial-to-exploit attack; for four years afterward, the company continued to sell this software to schools, airports,…
Tshirts trigger Automated License Plate Readers, polluting them with junk data
Clothing and tutorials for confounding and triggering computer vision-based surveillance systems with fashion and accessories.
