Walmart Patents Technology to Eavesdrop on Workers
In addition to capturing conversations, the retail giant's spy system could also track the length of lines at the checkout counter, how many items are scanned and the number of bags employees use.
How Much All-Seeing AI Surveillance Is Too Much?
As face-scanning technologies find new applications in store checkout lines, police body cameras and war zones, developers struggle to balance business opportunities with difficult moral decisions.
NSA Deletion of Call Records Is Raising Questions
The agency says "technical irregularities" were found in customer data collected from telecommunications companies. Data security and privacy rights advocates say the move shows deep flaws in the program.
If You're a Protester in Chicago, Big Brother Is Watching You
The Rahm Emanuel administration has continued the city's long, troubled history of snooping on groups exercising their First Amendment rights—and now state legislators want to let it use drones.
Scheer Intelligence
'We Live in a Golden Age of Surveillance' (Audio and Transcript)
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Robert Scheer talks with Nate Cardozo, the attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the struggle to protect free expression, privacy and innovation in a hyperconnected world.
Documents Show Private Intelligence Web Behind Global Surveillance Program
A partnership revealed in internal Cambridge Analytica documents highlights the connections between private intelligence firms and Western governments engaged in Middle East counterintelligence.
How Cambridge Analytica's Parent Company Infiltrated Yemen
Documents obtained by the Grayzone Project show how the SCL company conducted a surveillance operation using psychological profiling, “strategic communications campaigns” and infiltration of foreign operatives into local communities.
Glenn Greenwald: Trump Is a 'Continuation of American Political Culture' (Video)
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The Intercept journalist says that while Donald Trump's personality, rhetoric and style are "something unlike what we've seen before in the Oval Office," the president's policies are in line with mainstream American politics.
Juan Cole
Comey Doesn’t Like Trumpworld, but He Helped Create It
The former FBI chief has been a central figure in the gutting of the Fourth Amendment and in trying to make sure the government can break your encryption and spy on you.
President to Clear Way for Publication of Classified Memo
The Justice Department objects to the plan to release a memo on the Russia investigation that Republicans say shows improper use of surveillance by the FBI.