The Sanctity of Privacy
Todd Hayen I remember as a kid that privacy was pretty important. It really did have a sort of sanctity to it. There was a deep principle violated if...
The White House’s Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws
John & Nisha Whitehead
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” William O. Douglas, dissenting...
The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business
John Whitehead “Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.” Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis There was a...
Global Vaccine Passports Have Arrived Courtesy of Google, EU
PrivacyToGo On June 30th, 2021, the Google Developers blog announced the launch of vaccine passports in Android through its Passes API. Less than 24 hours later, the European Union, long mired in...
WATCH: How to de-Google
Remember when Google was just a search engine? In the age of Gmail and Google Drive and Google Maps and GooTube and Google phones, it’s truly unsettling to think...
Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance
Binoy KLampmark They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities. They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of “security”. Call it surveillance, or...
Wikileaks’ Timely Reminder of our Digital Panopticon
Wikileaks latest release of classified documents, entitled Vault 7, comes as a timely reminder to all of us (as if we needed it) that the theorized panopticon – the...
