CNET is reporting today that the FBI has quietly created a new web surveillance unit, charged with the task of developing new ways to intercept online, wireless, and VoIP communications. The Bureau Continue reading…
The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights associations will be taking their case against a 2008 surveillance law to the Supreme Court. The Court has announced that it will consider Continue reading…
"We’re surrounded by systems, devices and machineries generating heaps of raw graphic novelty. We built them, we programmed them, we set them loose for a variety of motives, but they do some Continue reading…
A new exhibit, Wired Frames, is opening at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York City. Its curated by James George, and uses the technology of tracking and surveillance that surrounds us Continue reading…
In many ways, growing technological capabilities have increased opportunities for surveillance, but the US Federal Bureau of Investigation may be drafting legislation to address the opposite issue: Continue reading…
In his review of Kelly Gates's Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance, author Evgeny Morozov takes an objective look at the history of facial recognition Continue reading…
The next time you find a hotel room with free Wi-Fi, you might not want to celebrate right away: your hotel could be selling your eyeballs to advertisers. When web developer Justin Watt stayed at the Continue reading…
Drones have freed US pilots from running surveillance missions, but the footage they collect still has to be watched by human analysts to determine its importance. And, unfortunately for them, it's Continue reading…
The massive 370-foot long blimp known as Blue Devil was intended to be a major asset to US military intelligence when it was first dreamt up by the Pentagon 18 months ago. Now the airship — which Continue reading…
Military drones are already used to survey the border between the US and Mexico, but starting last week, another piece of military technology has made its way back home. The latest surveillance tool Continue reading…
