TSA Confirms Biometric Scanning Soon Won’t Be Optional Even For Domestic Travelers

by TheRealPanzer to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

FBI, Defense Department Worked Together To Develop Facial Recognition Tech For Drones, Surveillance Cameras

by TheRealPanzer to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Study: It’s Comically Easy To Identify ‘Anonymized’ Users In The ‘Metaverse’ With A Tiny Bit Of Motion Data

by TheRealPanzer to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Amid More Game Shutdowns Occurring, John Carmack Weighs In On Preservation

by Myocarditis-Man to /s/Gaming from techdirt.com

How Dare Signal Protect Its Users From Surveillance, Asks Ethicist Who Advises The FBI

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

FBI Director Gets Back On His Anti-Encryption Bullshit In Statement To Homeland Security Committee

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Signal Says It Will Exit India Rather Than Compromise Its Encryption

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Hundreds Of Authors Ask Publishers To Stop Attacking Libraries

by Drewski to /s/books from techdirt.com

Yet Another Data Broker Found To Give Massive Amounts Of Location Info To Law Enforcement

by TheRealPanzer to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Twitch Decides A Siren Sound Effect Is Covered By Copyright And Silences Stream

by Drewski to /s/CopyrightActivism from techdirt.com

When Tech Companies Do It, The NY Times Calls It ‘Dark Patterns,’; When The NY Times Does It, It’s Called ‘Being Smart’

by TheRealPanzer to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

New Jersey Cops Are Using DNA Drawn From Newborns In Criminal Investigations

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

EU Commissioner Pens Barely Coherent Defense Of Spying On Everyone, For The Children

by TheRealPanzer to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

A Reminder from 2017: Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Years

by SoCo to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Supposed Terrorist Gets 20 Years In Prison For Uploading A Bomb-Making Video An FBI Agent Made For Him

by Drewski to /s/Intelligence from techdirt.com

Texas: Think Tank Proposes Banning Teens From Social Media

by TheRealPanzer to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

Trump's Social Network Is Rapidly Banning Users It Doesn't Like, Without Telling Them Why

by TheRealPanzer to /s/SocialMedia from techdirt.com

Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

by HongKongPhooey to /s/PoliceMisconduct from techdirt.com

Medical Device Makers Sue Library Of Congress For Allowing People To Fix Their Own Medical Devices

by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from techdirt.com

Torguard Blocks All U.S. BitTorrent Traffic After Entertainment Industry Lawsuit

by Drewski to /s/technology from techdirt.com

EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)

by Drewski to /s/piracy from techdirt.com

Court Tells Cops Who Got A Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 25 Years That Of Course Framing People For Crimes Is A Rights Violation

by Drewski to /s/PoliceMisconduct from techdirt.com

When The FBI Shows Up At Your Door About Your Reporting, That's Intimidation

by Drewski to /s/Intelligence from techdirt.com

Missouri Admits It Fucked Up In Exposing Teacher Data, Offers Apology To Teachers -- But Not To Journalists It Falsely Accused Of Hacking

by Drewski to /s/Security from techdirt.com

Sci-Hub Celebrates 10 Years Of Existence, With A Record 88 Million Papers Available, And A Call For Funds To Help It Add AI And Go Open Source

by Drewski to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Documents Show NYPD Has A Secret Surveillance Tech Slush Fund

by [deleted] to /s/Surveillance from techdirt.com

Oklahoma Deputies Steal $141,500 From Men Trying To Buy Land, Manage To Make $10,000 Of It Disappear

by Drewski to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads Or Tracking Code

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

is it time to stop murdering the corrupt yet?

by thefirststone to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

FBI Scores Itself Another Lawsuit For Using The No Fly List To Punish A Lebanese Man For Not Becoming An Informant

by Drewski to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like

by Drewski to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Coalition Of Internet Companies Who Are Decidedly Not 'Big Tech' Raise Their Voices About The Importance Of Section 230

by Drewski to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Trump Promises To Defund The Entire Military, If Congress Won't Let Him Punish The Internet For Being Mean To Him

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act

by Drewski to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

After Years Of Claiming It Doesn't Use Facial Recognition Software, The LAPD Admits It Has Used It 30,000 Times Since 2009

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

Canadian Man Arrested For Not Being A Terrorist

by [deleted] to /s/WorldNews from techdirt.com

Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well

by [deleted] to /s/whatever from techdirt.com

Supreme Court To Courts And Federal Agencies Trying To Rewrite Section 230: Knock It Off

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Federal Court: No, You Fucking May Not Force Your Way Into A Home And Strip Search Six Very Young Children

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

Tone Deaf Facebook To Cripple VR Headsets Unless You Link It To Your Facebook Account

by [deleted] to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Michigan Supreme Court: Selling A $24,000 House (And Keeping The Proceeds) Over An $8.41 Debt Is Unlawful

by Drewski to /s/news from techdirt.com

The Harry Potter Films Are Now Exclusive To Comcast, And The Streaming Sector Remains Oblivious To Piracy's Looming Resurgence

by Drewski to /s/piracy from techdirt.com

DHS Obtained Protesters' Encrypted Messages, Used Them To Craft 'Intelligence' Reports

by [deleted] to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Puerto Rico Decides The 1st Amendment Doesn't Apply To Its Citizens

by Drewski to /s/Freedom from techdirt.com

Senator Blumenthal Is Super Mad That Zoom Isn't Actually Offering The End To End Encryption His Law Will Outlaw

by Drewski to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue

by Drewski to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

Cloudflare Removes Warrant Canary: Thoughtful Post Says It Can No Longer Say It Hasn't Removed A Site Due To Political Pressure

by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from techdirt.com

FBI Asks Congress To Permanently Reauthorize The Phone Record Collection The NSA Voluntarily Shut Down

by useless_aether to /s/Intelligence from techdirt.com

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps For $60 After Years Of Battling Comcast

by fred_red_beans to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

White House Now Thinks Harvesting Fitness Tracker Data Could Stop The Next Mass Shooting

by Mnemonic to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

EU Intellectual Property Office Produces Dumbest Propaganda Film Ever, Pretending Without IP There Is No Creativity

by zyxzevn to /s/propaganda from techdirt.com

Appeals Court Reminds Deputies That Standing by While Rights are Violated is no Better Than Violating Them Yourself

by Stankmango to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

EU's Never Ending Quest To Rip The Internet And Free Expression To Shreds Continues With The Terrorist Content Regulation

by Skuly to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Australian Prosecutors Trying To Throw Reporters In Jail For Accurately Reporting On Cardinal George Pell's Conviction

by useless_aether to /s/pedogate from techdirt.com

After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

by Skuly to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles 11 & 13 That The Vote Should Have Flipped; EU Parliament Says Too Bad

by useless_aether to /s/Europe from techdirt.com

EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

by Skuly to /s/news from techdirt.com

Sites Warn EU Users Of Just How Bad Article 13 Will Be

by useless_aether to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Sites Warn EU Users Of Just How Bad Article 13 Will Be

by useless_aether to /s/Europe from techdirt.com

Big Win For Open Access, As University Of California Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions, Worth $11 Million A Year

by useless_aether to /s/science from techdirt.com

China Extends Its Censorship To Australian Books, Written By Australian Authors For Australian Readers

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Chinese Police Now Performing Door-To-Door Twitter Censorship

by useless_aether to /s/communismwatch from techdirt.com

LinkedIn (micro$oft) Is Helping The Chinese Government Silence Critics

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Despite Losing Its Copyright Case, The State Of Georgia Still Trying To Stop Carl Malamud From Posting Its Laws

by useless_aether to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Atlanta Prosecutor Sues DOJ For Blocking Investigation Of Incident Where Cops Shot A Man 59 Times

by SundogsPlace to /s/SundogsPlace from techdirt.com

California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public

by useless_aether to /s/news from techdirt.com

TSA Will No Longer Engage In Suspicionless, Cross-Country Surveillance Of Airplane Passengers

by useless_aether to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are Different

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are DifferentPiracy

by useless_aether to /s/DecentralizeAllThings from techdirt.com

After Getting FOSTA Turned Into Law, Facebook Tells Its Users To Stop Using Naughty Words

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

As Predicted, Australian Government Looks To Creep Site Censorship Into Search Censorship

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Epson 'Security Update' Bricks Third-Party Ink Refills, Opens Up Possibility Of A Competitive Trades Investigation

by useless_aether to /s/technology from techdirt.com