biometric surveillance
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The Surveillance Web Australia Is Building One Trial At A Time
A million faces later, the case for calling this a success is doing some heavy lifting.
Massie and Burlison Introduce Bill to Defund Flock Surveillance Cameras
Mass surveillance has found an unlikely congressional antagonist: a bill called Flock-Off.
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Britain’s civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.
US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal
A European whose fingerprints end up in a US enforcement database by mistake would have to fix it through American courts.
UK’s Reddit Fine Forces Users Into Mass Biometric Surveillance
Reddit’s fix for protecting children’s data requires adults to hand their face and government ID to a third-party system that runs 269 verification checks per person.
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Dubai Shows the Face of What Comes Next
A trade show dressed as a tech utopia, Intersec 2026 turns surveillance into spectacle and sells the illusion that safety and scrutiny are the same thing.
Wegmans Expands Biometric Surveillance in NYC Stores, Collecting Facial, Eye, and Voice Data From Shoppers
The grocery aisles have become testing grounds for corporate biometric surveillance.
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Your Car Is Talking Behind Your Back and the Insurance Company Is Listening
Car insurance has stopped being a ledger of past accidents and turned into a live experiment in behavioral control.
Oklahoma City Approves Controversial Facial Recognition Deal Despite Privacy Concerns
Oklahoma City is betting on an opaque AI dragnet without telling residents who’s behind the wheel or where it’s pointed.
Biometric Surveillance Expands in Sports: US Open and Clippers’ Intuit Dome Embrace Facial Recognition
What feels like a VIP fast lane is quietly redrawing the boundaries of personal consent.
New York Senate Advances Bill to Curb Police Use of Facial Recognition and Biometric Surveillance
Lawmakers push to rein in biometric surveillance but subway surveillance is quietly multiplying under the Hochul administration.
Russia Expands Biometric Surveillance: Over 200,000 Foreign Nationals Enrolled in Unified Biometric System Amid SIM Card Mandate
Foreign residents in Russia now trade their faces and voices for phone service, as biometric ID becomes the new passport to modern life.
