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16 major domestic airports are testing facial-recognition tech to verify IDs and it could go nationwide in 2023.

A new ISO-approved measure will also allow sharing of suspicious purchases with law enforcement

The FBI executed millions of searches of American electronic data last year without a warrant, U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.

Meta said Thursday that it removed roughly 1,600 fake accounts from Facebook and Instagram that were being used by seven

Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. the metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one's technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete.

There is no doubt that many folks trying to come up with ways to reduce impaired driving and making the roads safer have the best of intentions. And yet, hidden within those intentions can linger some pretty dangerous consequences. For reasons that are no

Moscow's metro has unveiled a facial recognition-based payment system, The Guardian reported. Riders can now pay at more than 240 stations without needing

Firefox now sends more data than you might think to Mozilla. To power Firefox Suggest, Firefox sends the keystrokes you type into your address bar, your location information, and more to Mozillas servers. Heres exactly what Firefox is sharing and how to control it.

Microsoft claims that "life's better together" in their advertising for this latest Windows version, but when it comes to technology, there is no surer way of keeping users divided and powerless than nonfree software. Developing nonfree software is an inherently antisocial act, for it is

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use 'field interview cards' which would then be reviewed

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has urged the government to block virtual private networks (VPNs) in India, citing VPN services as a "technological challenge" that could lead...

EU data protection laws look to be incompatible with the way the online retailer processes customer information, according to Luxembourg.

Data leak and forensics suggest NSO's surveillance tool used against journalists at some of world's top media companies

Our investigation shows how repressive regimes can buy and use the kind of spying tools Edward Snowden warned us about

Mozilla has decided to roll out the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) feature by default for Canadian Firefox users later this month. The move comes after DoH has already been offered to US-based Firefox users since 2020.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has approved Thermo Fisher Scientific's Applied Biosystems RapidHIT ID DNA Booking System for use by law enforcement booking stations to automatically process, upload and search DNA reference samples from

Email app Hey reveals that two-thirds of the messages it handles contain the hidden trackers. Emails pixels can be used to log: if and when an email is opened, how many times it is opened, what device or devices are involved, the user's rough physical location, deduced from their internet

Nano Adblocker and Nano Defender have been removed from the official Chrome Web Store.

Google is still drawing criticism for the data it hands over to police. Detroit News reporter Robert Snell has reviewed court documents (via CNET) showing that Google handed over IP addresses for users who searched for a specific address shortly befo...

You may call the security tech firms offer to protect our data from others—including the tech companies themselves—"strong encryption" or "end-to-end encryption."