Tag: surveillance

• Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech – The Citizen Lab

  April 13, 2026

  Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone’s life. In this report, we uncover how a geolocation surveillance… more ›

• China’s AI Education Experiment – by Lily Ottinger

  April 6, 2026

  Pilot schools in China are already using AI to grade children’s artwork, monitor their facial expressions during lectures, and screen them for psychological problems — and the Ministry of Education… more ›

• GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER

  March 25, 2026

  Feature documentary charting the untold origins of artificial intelligence. This is not a story about machines, it is a story about power. Directed by Valerie Veatch Official Selection Sundance Film… more ›

• Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”

  March 4, 2026

  Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts… more ›

• Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026 – AI Now Institute

  February 12, 2026

  In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies – and the tech oligarchs that run them –… more ›

• The year of technoligarchy

  January 7, 2026

  In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/ more ›

• Michael – Data Workers’ Inquiry

  December 21, 2025

  A rare glimpse into the labor behind “AI” sex companions, where human emotion becomes data. https://data-workers.org/michael/ more ›

• Shoshana Zuboff, philosopher: ‘AI is surveillance capitalism continuing to evolve and expand’ | Technology | EL PAÍS English

  December 17, 2025

  The author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ applauds the EU’s initiatives to curb big tech and calls on the bloc not to bow to pressure from Trump https://share.google/XqbIalBnPBqlzC7DQ more ›

• Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns

  November 20, 2025

  The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious. The Associated Press has… more ›

• Don’t be fooled. The US is regulating AI – just not the way you think | Sacha Alanoca and Maroussia Lévesque | The Guardian

  October 27, 2025

  Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/us-artificial-intelligence-regulations more ›