GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE

The drones were ready for this moment
COVID-19 patients’ right to privacy against quarantine surveillance
The worst is yet to come: contact tracing, immunity cards and mass testing
Surveillance plane starts flying over Baltimore, recording everyone's movements
VIDEO: Contact tracing – A new tyranny?
Fever-reading drones just first of a wave of privacy challenges, civil liberties advocates say
VIDEO: What is COVID-19 'contact tracing'?
Why Alexis is like having a government spy living in your house
Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them?
The surveillance state thrives during the pandemic
COVID-19 and the war on cash: What is behind the push for a cashless society?
Thermal imaging cameras are still dangerous dragnet surveillance cameras
Californians calling cops on their neighbors if they hear them coughing
To track virus, governments weigh surveillance tools that push privacy limits
How national security surveillance nabs more than spies
Senators push sneaky anti-privacy bill
Coronavirus vs. the mass surveillance state: which poses the greater threat?
Schools are pushing the boundaries of surveillance technologies
DNA databases are boon to police but menace to privacy, critics say
NYPD uses $10 million lab with supercomputer generating millions of passwords to defeat encryption
National security surveillance apologists are starting to see the light
Amazon Echo’s privacy issues go way beyond voice recordings
Facial recognition and the danger of automated authoritarianism
The evil list
Senators propose limits on police use of facial recognition
Trump and Comey are united against encrypted communications
Elderly, wheelchair-bound woman alleges TSA agents groped her body in full view of other travelers
Giving government vast snooping authority is one thing Democrats and Republicans both like
While you slept, government created internal passports, real ID
Snowden autobiography makes a plea for the Fourth Amendment, the right to privacy, and encryption
The DNA database used to find the Golden State Killer is a national security leak waiting to happen
FISA court ruled that FBI improperly used NSA surveillance data to snoop on Americans
Edward Snowden: Without encryption, we will lose all privacy.
Face masks to decoy t-shirts: The rise of anti-surveillance fashion
IRS testing behavioral analytics to verify online users
The world’s most-surveilled cities
Trump Admin is considering using Amazon Echo to determine if citizens should own a gun
Is facial recognition the new fingerprinting—or something much worse?
The sinister, unconstitutional effort to ban secure encryption is back
House votes down amendment to ban warrantless spying on Americans
Congress proposes legislation to screen adults and children to predict if you pose a threat
Police to use TSA-style scanners to spy on people in public places
Alexa ‘could be about to get even creepier,’ Amazon patent reveals
You’ve been warned: Widespread US face surveillance is ‘imminent reality’, says tech privacy report
Some US cities are moving into real-time facial surveillance
NSA says warrantless searches of Americans’ data rose in 2018
The Feds are dropping child porn cases instead of revealing info on their surveillance systems
Ancestry websites giving FBI access to DNA data
China’s social credit system – It’s coming to the United States
How China turned a city into a prison
Your Volvo will soon call the cops on you if it thinks you've been drinking
Alexa is listening to everything you say
Scientists want Orwellian A.I. sentient smart assistants to snitch on owners and discuss contacting police
Apple's intensifying privacy & encryption stance worsening FBI struggles with lawbreakers 'going dark'
The AI morality push which might make climate change compliance compulsory
Google’s LISTENING: Nest security system has a secret embedded microphone
How The Jussie Smollett hoax reveals the scope of the surveillance state
Arizona trying to become first in U.S. to require citizen DNA
FBI plotting to keep DNA of ENTIRE population on file to create ‘nation of suspects’
Bezos protests invasion of his privacy, as Amazon builds sprawling surveillance state for everyone else
Major DNA testing company sharing genetic data with the FBI
Big Data meets Big Gov't: New IRS spy software
How U.S. surveillance technology is propping up authoritarian regimes
Please, TSA workers, don’t come back
Boston mayor’s office to force doctors to identify and document patients who own guns
When it comes to surveillance, who will watch the watchman?
The FBI is trying Amazon’s facial-recognition software
Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us
Chinese-style social credits system a harbinger of US's future?
'Smart' uniforms track Chinese students in truancy fight
The EFF gift guide: What’s creeping us out
DEA spy cameras In vacuum cleaners: surveillance state
Hey, Mr. Trump! Tear down that Deep State wall.....of secrecy
The aggressive (and subtle) faces of coercion
Grade school rolls out fingerprint ID lunch system, parents don’t approve
Beijing to judge every resident based on behavior by end of 2020
DEA and ICE 'are hiding secret cameras inside streetlights and traffic barrels across the country'
Privacy vs. security: Why the widespread use of encryption is essential to national security
How the government uses its giant facial recognition database
How one privacy-first search engine Is benefiting from Google's mistakes
Cops breaking Facebook rules, creating fake accounts to watch you—here’s how to spot them
Creating a suspect society: The scary side of the technological police state
Feds force suspect to unlock an Apple iPhone X with their face
The government wants airlines to delay your flight so they can scan your face
VIDEO: The Trouble with Google
Digital dictatorship: China exerts control over population through "social credit" system
WATCH: Assange’s last interview before blackout released—”this is the last free generation”
China's chilling 'social credit system' is straight out of dystopian sci-fi, and it's already switched on
The game is rigged: Congress invites no consumer privacy advocates to its consumer privacy hearing
‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else
New lawsuit shows your phone is unsafe at American borders
VIDEO: Mark Penn, Tucker Carlson - Big Tech, Big Brother
VIDEO: The CIA Director Who Couldn't Be Trusted
Los Angeles is first in US to install subway body scanners
TSA's 'Quiet Skies' program raises legal and civil liberty questions
TSA tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program
Smart technology sees through walls to track and identify people
The wiretap rooms
FBI won’t reveal extent of illegal “geek squad” spying
John Stossel: Chinese Big Brother
Apple to undercut popular law-enforcement tool for cracking iPhones
Police use of Amazon’s face-recognition service draws privacy warnings
Colorado set to become first In U.S. To use “smart pavement” to monitor drivers in real-time
Your Home is your...snitch? When your appliances work as police informants.
Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering
State sets massive precedent, passes law to effectively ban the NSA
How a “location API” allows cops to figure out where we all are in real-time
The new battle over genetic privacy: How DNA sites became a police weapon
Spy agency NSA triples collection of U.S. phone records: official report
Republicans love federal snooping
Public transit becomes another tool for total government surveillance
The rapid rise of San Francisco's surveillance camera network
DHS wants to create profiles of journalists and “media influencers” who mention its name
A new backdoor around the Fourth Amendment: The CLOUD Act
'Facebook will NEVER sell your information without consent': Mark Zuckerberg's claim in a 2009 interview
People are freaking out that Facebook's Android apps collect call and text data
Unlawful FISA spying widespread under Obama administration
John Stossel: China's freedom-crushing 'social credit score'
Obama and Trump insiders reveal Facebook ALLOWED them BOTH to spy on you
Snowden: Facebook is a surveillance company lying to the world about being “social media”
Unlawful FISA spying widespread under Obama Administration
ACLU is suing the government for info about TSA device searches
Best Buy’s geek squad techs search customer computers for the FBI
Newly released surveillance orders show that even with court oversight, spying powers are misused
Border bouncers don't need Big Brother spying powers over Americans
Revealed: two secret cogs in the FBI national surveillance machine
The hypocrisy of the New York Times: America is a surveillance state
Seattle to remove controversial city spying network after public backlash
 The plan is for driverless police cars to patrol freeways to insure zero speeders
Things are getting worse, not better: round ups, checkpoints and national ID cards
Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance
Republicans hope to release 'jaw-dropping' memo on surveillance abuses
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo wants to keep you safe around the web
Google has an actual secret speech police
The undoing of limited government
Stop warrantless snooping on Americans
5 senators are filibustering an attempt to expand warrantless surveillance of Americans
House votes for six more years of warrantless surveillance
VIDEO: Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make
Twitter employees paid to view “everything you post online” including private “sex messages”
‘Don’t be evil’? Google is becoming a police state
Congress plotting to cut a hole in the 4th Amendment, again
How the government hides secret surveillance programs
NSA surveillance bill would legalize loophole that lets FBI spy on Americans without a warrant
Federal agencies may be regularly hiding surveillance methods in criminal cases
Thousands of Americans’ electronics illegally searched at border
Rand Paul on FISA
Rand Paul led the Senate fight against renewing warrantless surveillance and won
Congress Kicks Surveillance Debate into 2018
Can the FBI get away with getting Trump team emails?
Rand Paul threatens to filibuster long-term surveillance extension
How to recapture the true spirit of Christmas in a toxic age
Bus drivers have become 'true police informants'
Is the FBI really unaware of how they’ve abused its own surveillance?
Big Brother installing surveillance cameras in places of worship 
This anti-flash scarf makes you invisible in photos
Four camera surveillance PODS coming to a city near you
It's too easy for the government to invade privacy in name of security
Supreme Court justices voice support for digital privacy
Macy’s parade security used to promote surveillance and police state
Supreme court cellphone case puts free speech – not just privacy – at risk
The Motherboard guide to avoiding state surveillance
Mozilla's Privacy Not Included guide reveals if holiday gifts will spy on you
The anatomy of a national nervous breakdown
Should you put tape over your webcam?
Halloween is over — but surveillance state boosters still want to scare us
Reconsidering surveillance law raises anew issues of privacy
When it comes to surveillance, watch the watchmen
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Wyden unveil privacy-protecting surveillance reform bill
3 stories that show Big Brother is alive and well
USA Liberty Act won’t fix what’s most broken with NSA internet surveillance
Amazon & Walmart's in-home and car delivery service will let police conduct warrantless searches
New TSA screening means airport security hell is about to get worse
Smart devices are snitching on owners and rewriting the criminal justice system
Feds Give Americans the frog treatment
Smart billboards target individual motorists and spy on license plates and cellphones
Poll finds most young people worry about government surveillance ‘tracking their communications’
Judge approves surveillance on Reno buses
Permanent reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA 'borders on insanity'
End warrantless deep state spying: don't renew 702
London police’s use of facial recognition falls flat on its face
Trump quietly nominates mass surveillance advocate To “protect” your privacy rights
Judge Nap: Lack of outrage over NSA's illegal searches is 'astounding'
The thinning line between commercial and government surveillance
Big Brother is still watching you: Don’t fall for the NSA’s latest ploy
Did the government spy on Trump? Of course. It spies on all of us!
Wikileaks: The CIA is using popular TVs, smartphones and cars to spy on their owners
Welcome aboard, but first US Marshals will scan your retina
Andrew Napolitano: The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
What happens to communities when streetlights have eyes and brains?
Big Brother comes to the UK: Government empowered to monitor Internet browsing of all
VIDEO: John W Whitehead: The War on the American People
Donald Trump is about to control the most powerful surveillance machine in history
New eyeglasses to confuse facial recognition systems to soon be available
Americans are finding new ways to join the surveillance state
AT&T helping Feds spy on everyone
Feds find local police willing partners in surveillance state 
When CIA and NSA workers blow the whistle, Congress plays deaf
Privacy is about tradeoffs... and things go wrong when those tradeoffs are not clear
 VIDEO: Oliver Stone - on Edward Snowden
VIDEO: The Case for Pardoning Edward Snowden

The NSA built a secret, warrantless, shadow ‘social network’ and you’re already on it
DNC Hacks and leaky government illustrates encryption restrictions are foolish
Tracking everyone: government is hunting for money on trains and in the air
You’re a criminal in a mass surveillance world – how to not get caught
Edward Snowden has developed an iPhone case meant to kill surveillance
NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists"
Gov't says no privacy: NSA labels privacy-centric Internet users as extremists
Just a rubber stamp: US courts didn't reject a single wiretap request in 2015
The FBI's secret surveillance budget is close to being at $1 billion, report says
‘We the Prisoners’: The demise of the Fourth Amendment 
Zuckerberg joins Snowden and FBI Director, tapes over laptop camera and mike
FBI facial recognition database contains 90% non-criminals
377 words you can't say online without being surveilled
Tor is teaming up with researchers to protect users from FBI hacking
Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras? (even the FBI Director)
US Navy ‘discussed plans to fit humans with microchips and track their every move’
How one California county beat the surveillance state through ordinance
Obama admits the government monitors your browsing history
Google is recording everything you say — here’s how to hear it, delete it, and stop it
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
VIDEO: Edward Snowden - Public Interest Vs National Interest
Provision in Senate Intel Bill authorizes warrantless FBI Internet surveillance
‘Hatchet to liberty’: New senate bill expands FBI’s warrantless surveillance powers
Hidden microphones are part of government surveillance program in the bay area
VIDEO: Should all locks have keys? Phones, castles, encryption, and you
Philly cops used deceptive unethical tactics to track the movement of citizens
VIDEO: The unbelievable length of the TSA security line at Chicago airport
Ex-intel analyst says we need more Snowdens
Rand Paul to join effort preventing FBI from remotely accessing any computer
Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee: Your phone may be snooping on you
Senate kicks off debate over reauthorizing controversial NSA Programs
Oversight report: warrantless spying on Americans more than doubled since 2013
VIDEO: John Stossel - The Right to Privacy
The shameful truth about the government’s secret experiments
FBI seeks to keep nationwide biometric database a secret from citizens
Tor developer created malware for FBI to hack Tor users
Government's surveillance state tramples Fourth Amendment protections

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