China’s Software Stalked Uighurs Earlier and More Widely, Researchers Learn
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Before the Chinese police hung high-powered surveillance cameras and locked up ethnic minorities by the hundreds of thousands in China’s western region...
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U.S. Watched George Floyd Protests in 15 Cities Using Aerial Surveillance
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The Department of Homeland Security deployed helicopters, airplanes and drones over 15 cities where demonstrators gathered to protest the death of...
Air Force Investigates Military Planes That Monitored Protesters
WASHINGTON — The Air Force inspector general is investigating whether the military improperly used a little-known reconnaissance plane to monitor protests in Washington and Minneapolis...
China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using U.S. Gear
The police in China are collecting blood samples from men and boys from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700...
Europe Rolls Out Contact Tracing Apps, With Hope and Trepidation
ROME — When three people in the northern Italian region of Liguria tested positive for the coronavirus last week, they gave their doctors permission to...
Pentagon Denies Spying on Americans Protesting Police Killings
WASHINGTON — A top Pentagon official has told Congress that the nation’s military intelligence agencies did not spy on American protesters during the wave of...
The Real Dangers of Surveillance
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. How citizens and authorities respond to one...
Crisis in the Liberal City
The polarization of American life, the withdrawal of liberal and conservative Americans from one another, has generated a poisonous distillation on both sides. In separating...
A.C.L.U. Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy ‘Nightmare Scenario’
The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI, which claims to have helped hundreds of law enforcement agencies use...
House Pulls Surveillance Measure After Trump Tells Republicans to Vote No
House Democratic leaders on Thursday withdrew legislation that would revive expired F.B.I. tools to investigate terrorism and espionage and add privacy protections for Americans, after...