Airport officials have recently warned that the number of people flying between November 16 - 26 could reach 25 million, a 5% percent increase from last year. TSA administrator David Pekoske revealed at a recent conference that they will be implementing new measures including the...
It was reported last week that the US FDA had approved the first-ever, over-the-counter digital contraceptive called Natural Cycles. The app monitors changes in the body such as temperature and menstrual data and uses an algorithm to tell the user when they are allowed to...
The growing trend of using vision-based artificial intelligence in law enforcement is raising concerns from privacy and civil liberties groups who fear that it can be misused to secretly profile citizens. AI monitoring systems are used by authorities to help interpret video surveillance footages. Most AI...
Reports last Wednesday stated that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has enacted regulations that renders the public off-limits from its biometric system called the Next Generation Identification database. The new FBI ID system houses biometric information of people screened for criminal histories, work applications,...
Google will be facing a lawsuit filed by privacy advocates Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) with the US Federal Trade Commission over issues involving a system that pries into card purchases made by customers in shops. Google launched the Store Sales Measurement program with third-party agreements...
Last Tuesday, the Trump administration's committee on electoral fraud was given a go signal to restart gathering voter information throughout the country. In June, the Washington's Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) filed a lawsuit to stop the commission from collecting registered voter's data,including birth dates, names,...
Arguments on Friday questioning President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission’s requests for sensitive data were heard on a federal court. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit over the July 4 weekend against the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity after the latter requested...
A commission created by US President Donald Trump to gather voter data is being sued by a privacy advocate group. Last week, Trump’s Advisory Commission on election Integrity asked officials from 50 states to provide voter information, including names, addresses, birthdays, past convictions, political affiliations, and...