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A group of Greek victims has filed a lawsuit against Intellexa, the company behind the Predator spyware, after the surveillance tool was found on dozens of phones in 2022. The scandal previously forced out senior Greek government officials, including the intelligence chief and the prime minister's chief of staff.
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Meta is introducing a feature to its AI-enabled glasses designed to make covert recording harder, responding to concerns about surveillance. The update arrives alongside broader moves to increase the amount of personal data collected and processed across Meta's AI products.
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Police used live facial recognition technology to identify and arrest 28 people, marking a concrete example of real-time biometric surveillance being used as an active law enforcement tool rather than a back-office verification system.
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Individuals targeted by wiretapping in Greece have filed a lawsuit against Intellexa, the spyware firm behind the Predator surveillance tool, seeking financial damages. The case marks a direct legal challenge by victims against a commercial spyware vendor.
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced that allied nations plan to acquire up to five MQ-4C Triton surveillance drones, signaling a coordinated push to expand the alliance's maritime and aerial monitoring capabilities.
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Anthropic faced user backlash after a hidden tracking mechanism was discovered in Claude, contradicting the company's public positioning against surveillance. An engineer described the data collection as an experiment and said it has since been discontinued.
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U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns that the appointment of William Pulte to a key position could complicate or block the renewal of an existing surveillance law. The warning signals potential friction between the executive branch's personnel choices and congressional oversight of intelligence authorities.
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The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority is reportedly planning to deploy facial recognition technology on public buses. The proposal would subject transit riders to biometric surveillance as a condition of using public transportation.
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Meta is reportedly planning to monitor employee mouse movements and keystrokes, with the data intended for use in AI training. The surveillance would apply to workers using company systems, effectively turning the daily activity of Meta's workforce into a source of behavioral training data.
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Security researchers have found that a European Parliament member who was involved in investigating surveillance practices was themselves targeted with Israeli-made spyware. The finding suggests the lawmaker's device was compromised, potentially exposing the very work meant to scrutinize such tools.
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A commentary published by the Kansas City Star questions why riders of Kansas City's public bus system are subject to surveillance simply by using public transit. The piece frames routine bus ridership as an activity that should not automatically expose people to monitoring.
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The New Jersey Legislature passed the Fair Price Protection Act, which prohibits the use of surveillance pricing in grocery sales. The law blocks retailers from using personal data or behavioral tracking to set individualized prices for food products.
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The Marine Corps is establishing a new scout military occupational specialty to be embedded within infantry units, focused on battlefield reconnaissance and surveillance. The role is designed to give ground commanders more organic intelligence-gathering capability.
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Papa Johns partnered with NBCUniversal, Instacart, and media agency Carat to target consumers using grocery purchase data, aiming to serve ads when people are likely running low on food. The campaign builds custom audiences from Instacart shopping behavior to time pizza ads around moments of predicted hunger.
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The Supreme Court's Chatrie decision addressed how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital-age surveillance, with analysts describing the ruling as a limited but meaningful check on law enforcement's ability to use technology to override privacy protections.
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A Financial Times report examines how AI is transforming video surveillance, drawing on examples from Israel, Iran, and Russia. The key shift is that AI now allows operators to query footage using plain language, moving well beyond the limited preset searches that older systems allowed.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling on geofence warrants, a surveillance method that allows law enforcement to collect location data from all devices near a specified place and time. The decision addresses privacy protections around this practice under federal law.
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UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's plans to roll out live facial recognition technology across approximately 200 of its stores, significantly expanding a surveillance system that scans shoppers' faces in real time. The move has drawn attention from civil liberties group Big Brother Watch.
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A US city is pursuing facial recognition technology on public buses, sparking public debate about whether the security benefits justify continuous biometric surveillance of transit riders. The proposal has drawn pushback from privacy advocates concerned about how the data would be collected, stored, and used.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that geofence searches violate the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches, finding that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy against this type of location-based surveillance. The Electronic Privacy Information Center welcomed the decision.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has placed limits on geofence warrants, a law enforcement tool that collects location data from all mobile devices in a defined area during a set time window. The ruling addresses longstanding concerns about the privacy implications of dragnet-style digital surveillance tied to cellphone data.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States that people have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in location data tracking their physical movements, and that even short-term surveillance of those movements constitutes a search requiring constitutional justification. The case centered on geofence warrants, which allow police to collect location data from all devices near a crime scene.
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