Skip to content

Tag: government surveillance

The War on Crypto Was Always About Control

The U.S. Treasury has now frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who announced sanctions targeting...

Chatrie v. United States and the Rise of Geofence Surveillance

The case of Chatrie v. United States exposed just how far governments have moved toward mass digital surveillance through a technique known as geofencing. This...

Google Partners with the Pentagon to Sell Your Data

  There has always been this convenient belief that Big Tech operates independently from government, as if the data you store, search, and upload exists in...

Digital Iron Curtain Expands as Russia Adopts China’s Surveillance Model

The Russian police has launched a mass-campaign of pulling people over and checking their phones to see if they have “illegal VPNs” installed...

Surveillance for Sale – FBI Increases Data Tracking

The FBI has now openly admitted that it is purchasing location data on Americans, confirming what many suspected for years. Director Kash Patel testified that the...

AI, the Pentagon, and the Surveillance State

The resignation of Caitlin Kalinowski from OpenAI has triggered a debate that goes far beyond Silicon Valley. Kalinowski stepped down shortly after the company...

The End of the Anonymous Internet

Congress is once again advancing legislation under the banner of protecting children online, and whenever government begins framing policy in moral language, it...

Subcutaneous Microchip Mandates

  There was a time when warnings about governments embedding identification technology directly into the human body would have sounded like something from...

Europe Is Building a Digital Identity System for 450 Million People

The European Union is quietly constructing what may become one of the most sweeping digital identity systems ever attempted. Under new legislation, every EU member...

Biometric Databases: Governments Building the Infrastructure of Surveillance

Governments around the world are rapidly expanding biometric identification systems, quietly building databases that contain some of the most personal information a...