State of Surveillance 2022

Tech

San Francisco Police Can Now Kill People With Robots

11.30.22

By Aaron Gordon
Tech

San Francisco Police Want to Be Allowed to Kill People With Robots

11.29.22

By Aaron Gordon
Tech

SF Mayor ‘Wallpapered Over’ Privacy Concerns About Police Access to Live Surveillance Cameras, Docs Show

11.15.22

By Aaron Gordon
Tech

Police Use DNA Phenotyping to Limit Pool of Suspects to 15,000

11.10.22

By Chloe Xiang
Tech

JP Morgan Wants to Make Tenant Data Available to Every Landlord

11.04.22

By Chloe Xiang
Tech

Big Meat Companies Want to Use Smartwatches to Track Workers’ Every Move

11.02.22

By Tatyana Woodall
Tech

Ring Cameras Are Being Used to Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers

10.19.22

By Edward Ongweso Jr
Tech

After Uvalde, Texas Public Schools Send Home DNA Kits For Kids

10.19.22

By Claire Woodcock
Tech

Companies in the UK Are Mining Users’ Personal Data to Place Billboard Ads

10.13.22

By Tatyana Woodall
Tech

‘Consumers Get Screwed’: Airbnb’s and Uber’s Background-Check Company Keeps Getting Sued

10.11.22

By Samantha Cole
Tech

When School Superintendents Market Surveillance Cameras

10.04.22

By Aaron Gordon
Tech

Banished for an Unleashed Dog: Airbnb Bans Bewilder Guests and Hosts

10.03.22

By Maxwell Strachan and Samantha Cole

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Gaming

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