Surveillance & Privacy
Australia caught Roblox letting adults message 1.7 million kids—now the platform faces $49.5 million in fines
Australia's regulator fined Roblox $49.5M for failing to stop adults from contacting 1.7M children. The…
Chinese hackers spent three years planting ‘digital bombs’ inside 5,000 US water utilities—and nobody has a plan
Chinese state hackers embedded malware in thousands of US water systems. A war game revealed…
Nielsen now requires panelists to wear wrist devices that listen to everything on TV — starting August 31st
Nielsen's new wearable meters will track what panelists watch at home. Starting August 31st, research…
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Apple delays smart glasses launch to 2027 after Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ backlash — and privacy messaging becomes the real product
Apple pushes its smart glasses to 2027 over privacy fears sparked by Meta's device. How surveillance anxiety now shapes billion-dollar…
Meta’s smart glasses became so infamous for harassment that Instagram banned content filmed with them
Meta banned its own smart glasses content from Instagram after widespread harassment and non-consensual filming. Here's what went wrong.
Over 1,000 police departments just cleared the way for autonomous drones to watch backyards and roofs—without a human pilot
Over 1,000 police departments have obtained FAA waivers to deploy AI-powered autonomous drones that can surveil backyards and roofs without…
Madison Square Garden shut down its face-recognition cameras for Taylor Swift’s wedding—but keeps them running for everyone else
MSG disabled its biometric surveillance for Taylor Swift's rehearsal dinner. For everyone else, the cameras never stop watching.