European Court Accepts Gait Recognition as Evidence in Murder Case
September 18, 2025
Conviction by cadence inches closer to reality as the justice system begins tracking footsteps like fingerprints.
Conviction by cadence inches closer to reality as the justice system begins tracking footsteps like fingerprints.
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
A handshake in Dubai signals a future where identity and payments merge into a single digital layer.
A federal digital ID watchdog could soon decide how anonymous you’re allowed to be online.
A face in the crowd is all it takes to be caught in the dragnet of a digital police state.
It’s a major step for Tor on mobile, even if the software is still rough around the edges.
Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.
A shopping trip turned public shaming exposes the hidden dangers of algorithmic policing.
The government keeps collecting what it can’t protect.
More than 500 scientists denounce EU’s encrypted message scanning as “technically infeasible.”
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image.
Digital IDs return to the table as Mahmood ties border security to everyday identity checks.
Roblox’s age checks are pitched as child safety tools but double as a blueprint for an internet where logging on increasingly means showing ID.
An age-check system built to shield minors ends up exposing adults in granular digital detail.
Privacy settings were more like polite suggestions than actual boundaries.
A rail upgrade in name, a surveillance system in practice, logging movements with every mile.
False positives flood the system, but the EU still wants to make the scan permanent and mandatory.
Local saves become legacy as Microsoft nudges Word users into the cloud with every new document.
Android’s last big selling point, the freedom to install whatever you want from who you want, may soon run through a single Google checkpoint.
The justices drew a bright line through the data stream, declaring that your pocket-sized diary deserves more respect than a rummaged junk drawer.
The University tracked protestors like they were logged-in devices, not dissenting students.
Tech giants can’t claim end-to-end security while building doors for foreign governments.
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Coding KYC into smart contracts threatens to turn permissionless finance into a gated system.
Conviction by cadence inches closer to reality as the justice system begins tracking footsteps like fingerprints.
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
A handshake in Dubai signals a future where identity and payments merge into a single digital layer.
A federal digital ID watchdog could soon decide how anonymous you’re allowed to be online.
A face in the crowd is all it takes to be caught in the dragnet of a digital police state.
It’s a major step for Tor on mobile, even if the software is still rough around the edges.
Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.
A shopping trip turned public shaming exposes the hidden dangers of algorithmic policing.
The government keeps collecting what it can’t protect.
More than 500 scientists denounce EU’s encrypted message scanning as “technically infeasible.”
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image.
Digital IDs return to the table as Mahmood ties border security to everyday identity checks.
Roblox’s age checks are pitched as child safety tools but double as a blueprint for an internet where logging on increasingly means showing ID.
An age-check system built to shield minors ends up exposing adults in granular digital detail.
Privacy settings were more like polite suggestions than actual boundaries.
A rail upgrade in name, a surveillance system in practice, logging movements with every mile.
False positives flood the system, but the EU still wants to make the scan permanent and mandatory.
Local saves become legacy as Microsoft nudges Word users into the cloud with every new document.
Android’s last big selling point, the freedom to install whatever you want from who you want, may soon run through a single Google checkpoint.
The justices drew a bright line through the data stream, declaring that your pocket-sized diary deserves more respect than a rummaged junk drawer.
The University tracked protestors like they were logged-in devices, not dissenting students.
Tech giants can’t claim end-to-end security while building doors for foreign governments.
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Coding KYC into smart contracts threatens to turn permissionless finance into a gated system.
