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The problem with facial recognition being used by law enforcement, and how you can defeat the tech.

This is a non-technical presentation but applies to the reason this site exists; without perspective, what exactly are we resisting?

This is a well assembled and convenient kit that isolates your phone. No cautious protester should be without one.

I’m glad to see that large companies are getting involved in the discussion.

Privacy advocates panic and try to avoid a national DNA database, but it’s already here and in active use.

There’s one reason Facebook lost billions today: invading your privacy makes others money. Respecting people’s privacy impacts the bottom line.

A previous article mentioned that the UK was piloting a new program for fingerprinting people on the street so this is not new. What is new is the economics of a broader rollout.

What happens when “standard room searches” occur at a security conference with ~25,000 attendees? All hell breaks loose.

I was listening to the CEO of Microsoft give his keynote speech at MS Ignite this week and he highlighted that Microsoft was a key player in passing the CLOUD act. The rest of his speech is a nightmare for you and me while it rains silver dollars on big business.

This extraordinary article at the CATO Institute bears mirroring. Have you seen the customer number on your drivers’ license? Since when are citizens “customers”? Answer – it’s been a while, it’s been right under our nose, and it’s much more widespread than we even dreamed.