New Gallup data show that people are growing increasingly distrustful of major technology companies such as Meta, Apple, and ...

There's close to 14,000 man-made satellites bopping around in low-Earth orbit. Many of us willingly bring wiretaps into our lives: smartphone apps that constantly listen; smart speakers that do our ...

Civil rights attorneys say a recent Supreme Court ruling in a landmark digital privacy case could put “wind in the sails” of ...

Anthropic fought against the government’s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans’ data, enabling them ...

President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could weaponize U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct mass surveillance on his targets. Mass ...

From doorbell cameras to automated license plate readers, public surveillance has expanded rapidly since 2020. Is the tide ...

Amid fears it’s created a mass surveillance system, Flock is turning its license plate readers into fully-fledged surveillance cameras, taking on what it claims is a monopoly on police tech by Axon.

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on ...

A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will ...

On a Saturday morning, you head to the hardware store. Your neighbors’ Ring cameras film your walk to the car. Your car’s sensors, cameras and microphones record your speed, how you drive, where ...

World Cup 2026 deploys facial recognition, robot dogs, and counter-drone systems that will permanently expand surveillance infrastructure beyond the tournament.

The police in Germany are being granted rapidly expanding powers of surveillance including biometric tracking, state trojans, ...