As for Wilcox, he’s long been one of that small group of privacy zealots who buys his SIM cards in cash with a fake name. But he hopes Phreeli will offer an easier path—not just for people like him, but… Read More "A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code"
The Louisiana Department Of Wildlife And Fisheries (LDWF), typically responsible in part for overseeing wildlife reserves and enforcing local hunting rules, has assisted United States immigration authorities with bringing at least six people into federal custody this year, according to… Read More "The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE"
If you’re near Rochester, New York, the price for a carton of Target’s Good & Gather eggs is listed as $1.99 on its website. If you’re in Manhattan’s upscale Tribeca neighborhood, that price changes to $2.29. It’s unclear why the… Read More "Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs"
Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling workers how to review and categorize footage including images people and vehicles in the United… Read More "Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI"
On November 21, 2023, field intelligence officers within the Department of Homeland Security quietly deleted a trove of Chicago Police Department records. It was not a routine purge. For seven months, the data—records that had been requested on roughly 900… Read More "DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules"
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is expanding plans to outsource immigrant tracking to private surveillance firms, scrapping a recent $180 million pilot proposal in favor of a no-cap program with multimillion-dollar guarantees, according to new contracting records reviewed by WIRED. Late… Read More "ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms"
“What is recommended is that when something happens, they go to open the folder and the next day request the video evidence, because [without an investigation file] they will not be able to access this information,” says Salvador Guerrero Chiprés,… Read More "Mexico City Is the Most Video-Surveilled Metropolis in the Americas"
Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The NYPD’s turn toward mass surveillance was begun in earnest by Commissioner Raymond Kelly during the immediate aftermath of September 11, buoyed by hundreds of millions of dollars in federal… Read More "Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State"
Zoë Schiffer: So shifting gears, our next story deals with another inescapable fact of modern life, which is scam text messages. Brian, how many scam texts or calls would you say you receive in a given week these days? Brian… Read More "WIRED Roundup: DHS’s Privacy Breach, AI Romantic Affairs, and Google Sues Text Scammers"
It’s this creeping surveillance that gives some students pause, even those who told The 74 they otherwise support vape detectors in bathrooms. The possibility of unknown capabilities with the sensors is “very scary to me” said Moledina, the Austin teen,… Read More "Vaping Is ‘Everywhere’ in Schools—Sparking a Bathroom Surveillance Boom"
