Week in Review: Cameras, Classifiers, and What Happens to Your Data When the Company Dies
Facial recognition on the Tube. A four-year-unpatched criminal records portal. An airline's emails and 30 million recorded calls sold for $10 million....
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800 Pubs Just Told Meta's Glasses to Switch the Camera Off
J D Wetherspoon has asked customers across more than 800 UK venues to disable recording on Meta smart glasses, describing the devices as enabling surr...
ICE Pulled a $125 Million Sole-Source Contract and Nobody Should Feel Relieved
ICE withdrew its no-bid $125 million surveillance-data award to Thomson Reuters and will compete it instead, with a solicitation expected 24 August. I...
Live Facial Recognition Arrives on the London Underground
British Transport Police switched on live facial recognition inside a Tube station for the first time on 11 August, at Victoria. Every face that walks...
Vegas Week: Hackers Spent August Explaining Why Age Verification Is a Breach Waiting to Happen
Black Hat USA ran August 1–6 and DEF CON 34 ran August 6–9, in the same week the Senate advanced four bills that require knowing every internet user's...
The EU AI Act's Big Day Arrived — and the Biometric Surveillance Rules Weren't On It
August 2, 2026 was supposed to be the day high-risk AI obligations became enforceable across the EU — police facial recognition, employment screening,...
ICE Outsourced Finding People — 13 Private Firms, 50,000 Names a Month, and AI Doing the Looking
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued open-ended skip-tracing contracts to 13 private companies worth up to $1.2 billion over two years. Each...
Paid in Shares of the Company That Scraped You: Seventh Circuit Throws Out the Clearview AI Settlement
The settlement was one of the strangest in privacy law: instead of cash, everyone whose face Clearview AI scraped would get a 23% equity stake in Clea...
You Didn't Consent to Ring's Camera, But It Remembers Your Face Anyway
Amazon's Ring rolled out a feature called 'Familiar Faces' that uses AI to recognize and remember people who walk past its doorbell cameras. A new cla...
A 93% Match and an Overnight in Jail: How Florida's Facial Recognition Wrongly Branded Robert Dillon a Child Predator
Jacksonville Beach police ran a grainy photo through a facial recognition system called FACESNXT, got a '93% match,' and built a child-luring case aro...
The Same Day: A UK Cop Accused of Faking Evidence With AI, and a £140m Bet on Police AI
A Derbyshire officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidence across multiple cases. Days earlier, the UK announce...
Amazon's Ring Is Scanning the Faces of People Who Never Bought a Ring. Now It's a Class Action.
A new class action over Ring's 'Familiar Faces' feature gets at the core problem with neighborhood facial recognition: the people being scanned never ...
FarSight: The Drone Surveillance System That Identifies You by Your Walk, Not Just Your Face
Researchers have built a drone surveillance system called FarSight that identifies individuals at long range by fusing facial recognition, gait analys...
70+ Civil Liberties Groups Want Meta to Stop Its Facial Recognition Smart Glasses. An Internal Memo Explains Why They're Worried.
A coalition of 70+ organisations including the ACLU and EFF is demanding Meta halt its 'Name Tag' facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban and Oakley sm...
New York Is Coming for Your Face and Your AI Training Data — Two Bills Just Passed
New York's Senate passed the Biometric Identifier Privacy Act, requiring opt-in consent before companies can collect your facial geometry, fingerprint...
The AI Police State Is Already Here: How Axon, Flock Safety, and Motorola Are Watching You
Facial recognition. Behavioral analytics. Vehicle scanning 20 billion times a month. Predictive policing algorithms that flag you before any crime occ...
ICE's $28.7 Billion AI Surveillance Machine: Palantir, Clearview, and the End of Anonymous Public Life
ICE's FY2026 budget is ten times its total surveillance spending over the previous 13 years combined. Palantir's ImmigrationOS tracks self-deportation...
A Security Researcher Walked Through a Conference and Identified Every Stranger He Saw Using Meta's Glasses
At RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, ESET's Jake Moore paired Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with commercial facial recognition software and identified people i...
When Your Privacy Policy Is a Lie: The OkCupid–Clarifai Data Scandal Explained
When Your Privacy Policy Is a Lie: The OkCupid–Clarifai Data Scandal Explained...