“Right now – without doing anything – schools may be getting alerts about students” who are searching the internet for resources related to reproductive health, Laird said. “If you are in a state that has a law that criminalizes abortion, right now this tool could be used to enforce those laws.” Read more at The … Read more
Cyphers concluded that “Fog’s service allows police to track people’s movements”—both broadly and specifically—”over long periods of time.” Police can start by searching everyone in an area and then toggle to the device search to find out where people connected to those devices “live and work.” This, Cyphers wrote, allows local police the same capability … Read more
These laws do not stop at targeting society’s most vulnerable. They also attack the legal and social norms that underpin our system of government. They turn citizens into spies in a surveillance scheme more reminiscent of a totalitarian state, and shred the vital principle that the laws are applied equally to all people. These laws … Read more
