A class action lawsuit filed in Illinois claims retail giant Target collects and stores customers’ biometric data without obtaining proper consent, in violation of state law.
The development of brain scanning technologies along with the legalization of a National Neurological Conditions Surveillance System have raised concerns about widespread neurological surveillance.
Documents show that the U.S. government has been looking at 'potential sensor' technologies and 'expected contributions' that might include detecting 'electrical activity of the… brain' to determine peoples’ secret intentions.
Your digital identity will be your passport in the metaverse, where it will be used to surveil, predict, and mimic your behavior while determining your level of access to information and spaces.
Liberal democracy is an experiment in the rule by fantasy, which cannot solve the problems it has created. It can only silence those who notice that the emperor is not merely naked, but a dangerous fanatic.
Describing an EU-wide digital ID wallet as 'sinister,’ Dutch MEP Gerolf Annemans said 'the idea of a digital wallet essentially puts the finishing touches on a path that will lead us to the total control of society.'
Projects funded by the National Science Foundation threaten to create a censorship regime that could significantly impede the fundamental First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.
Biometrics is at once safer than that of PINs and passwords, but also much riskier, given that unauthorized access provides those behind a hack to a large amount of personal information.