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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Federal lawyers cited a broken face-recognition art project to block five states from unmasking ICE agents—but the creator says it barely works

Trump administration cites defunct art project in lawsuit against state anti-mask laws for ICE agents. The creator says the tech…

My town just voted for more Flock cameras than cops—and the false arrests nobody’s talking about convinced them anyway

A South Carolina town voted to install more Flock surveillance cameras than police officers, ignoring warnings about false arrests and…

California’s DROP tool just went live: one request deletes your data from 614 brokers at once

California residents can now delete personal data from 614 data brokers with a single request. Here's what DROP does, who…

New Orleans cops drafted a policy allowing armed drones, then quietly deleted it from the internet after activists found it

Police department quietly drafted a weaponized drone policy, then scrubbed it online after activists discovered it. What else aren't they…