Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to stop funding local law enforcement Flock camera purchases and operations. The move comes shortly after the Texas Tribune announced an investigation into $30 million provided to local police departments for Flock cameras.
Freedom Caucus lawmakers cheered the House Appropriations Committee advancing an amendment to a major funding bill that would protect Americans’ privacy against data brokers.
UK gov follows up attacking Magna Carta by announcing it is postponing elections and inroducing a nationwide facial camera recognition system.
The Treasury Department asked banks to snoop through customers’ transactions for signs of “extremism,” such as purchases of “small arms” or Bibles, according to Jordan.
Republicans and Democrats overwhemingly voted on Wednesday to advance a bill that seeks to rein in deep state surveillance programs.
Fifty-four House lawmakers, Democrat and Republican, conservative and progressive, called on Speaker Mike Johnson not to extend a controversial deep state surveillance law in a defense bill.
Nearly one-third of Generation Z Americans support the idea of installing government surveillance cameras in every household, a survey found.
Drones will be deployed in a Dutch municipality to monitor whether people’s homes meet zoning regulations and to monitor construction sites.Drones will be deployed in a Dutch municipality to monitor whether people’s homes meet zoning regulations and to monitor construction sites.
Tony Blair and ex-leader Tory leader William Hague called for the imposition of a digital ID, in a scheme being likened to Communist China.
Democrat plans to surveil bank accounts with the IRS resemble China’s “social credit score” system, Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) said.
British police have begun employing drones to monitor political protests throughout the country, as campaigners warn that the increasingly heavy-handed tactics employed by the police may be used to “silence dissent”. A freedom of information request from the UK Drone
Wall Street Journal assistant editor James Freeman and Sen. Rand Paul are on the same page: the Mueller report confirms it is now time for the Obama administration to account for its flagrant abuse of the surveillance powers of the federal government.
If you’ve seen The Lives of Others, the Oscar-winning movie set in Communist East Germany, you’ll know how constrictive and oppressive it was living in a surveillance state where the authorities monitored your every move.
Stockholm police announced a plan to place hundreds of microphones in the Järva area of Stockholm in order to automatically alert authorities to crimes in progress as they can identify screams and other sounds.
The facial recognition database used by the FBI is “out of control,” according to a new report by The Guardian.
Wide-ranging surveillance powers which passed into law yesterday will undermine our “fundamental rights” and have “no place in a modern democracy”, the inventor of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, has said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed the firestorm over whether he is for a database for Muslims, saying, “I was really responding to totally different reporter. He was responding to that reporter, where basically the suggestion was made, and it’s certainly
Britain’s government published proposals for new Internet spying laws Wednesday to keep pace with the digital age and crack down on terror threats, but critics have branded the package a “snooper’s charter”. The plans are expected to grant intelligence agencies
Police Scotland are again pushing to unify Scottish Closed-Circuit TeleVision (CCTV) cameras into a single, centrally-controlled national network of High Definition (HD) cameras. Calling the present decentralised network of cameras that are controlled and run locally outdated and unreliable, Police
Over growing fears of Islamist terror attacks, the EU is exploiting public fear to expand its surveillance capabilities. This conceited effort to override current national co-operation is not the solution. MEP’s have now passed a resolution which will expand the
Britain’s counter-terror law boss has blasted internet giants like Twitter in a major report this week because they are unwilling to cooperate in terrorism investigations – and may even warn terror suspects they are being spied on. Senior lawyer David Anderson
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush stated that he is “nervous” about criticism of the NSA and that he wished the president would do a better job defending government surveillance systems on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Bush said that lone wolf
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) declared that what you say on your cell phone is “none of the government’s damn business” on Thursday’s “Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Describing his supporters, Paul said, “these kids are sort of the ‘leave me alone’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers a response to President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address. Senator Paul prescribes several policy changes for the federal government, including congressional term limits, tax cuts, and free-market healthcare reform.
