Netizens are concerned that a proposal to evaluate Hangzhou residents based on their medical records and lifestyle choices could jeopardize personal privacy and pave the way for discrimination. Welcome to the future.

Chinese internet giant Tencent has been surveilling content posted by foreign users on its wildly popular messaging service WeChat in order to help it refine censorship on its platform at home, according to a new report.

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.

The reasoning is that facial recognition tech is so new, yet rolling out so quickly, we simply can’t know all the risks and drawbacks associated with it.

Since 2012, the city’s law enforcement agencies have compiled over 65,000 face scans and tried to match them against a massive mugshot database. But it’s almost completely unclear how effective the initiative was, with one spokesperson saying they’re unaware of a single arrest or prosecution that stemmed from the program.

Facial recognition systems can produce wildly inaccurate results, especially for non-whites, according to a US government study released Thursday that is likely to raise fresh doubts on deployment of the artificial intelligence technology. The study of dozens of facial recognition algorithms showed

A year ago, we asked some of the most prominent smart home device makers if they have given customer data to governments. The results were mixed.

Documents hint the data could be shared with police, but Ring denies the features are in use or development.

Inquiring lawsuits want to know what the DOJ, DEA, & FBI are using the tech for.

Serikjan Bilash signed a plea deal after Kazakh officials charged him with "inciting ethnic tensions" for his work documenting repression against Kazakhs and in China's Xinjiang region.

A majority of Americans believe the First Amendment are willing to crack down on free speech, as well as the press, according to a new poll.

Amazon’s home security company Ring tracked how its users responded to law enforcement requests for surveillance footage captured by Ring devices, and it provided overviews of that data to police departments upon request.

The propaganda app — mandatory in some workplaces — can give the Communist Party a powerful new surveillance tool. 

"Just because it's not the state doesn't mean that there isn't harmful impacts that could come if you have one or two large companies monitoring or tracking everything you do," says Christopher Wylie.

Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy.

Most politicians don’t understand how to confront Amazon’s market power. The most recent example is in France, where last month a decision was made to levy a 3 percent tax on Big Tech firms with global revenues higher than €750 million (~$830 million) and French revenues exceeding €25 million.

Recent months have seen a wave of cities and counties around the country rejecting the use of automated license plate readers in their communities, citing privacy concerns posed by the technology.

The United States' top digital surveillance agency is using an off-the-shelf version of Slack. For what? They should tell us!

Communist dictatorship at its finest.

Up to 25 giant surveillance balloons are floating over the Midwest.