The Top Ten Ways to Get Yourself Surveilled by the IRS
The Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee took another whack Thursday at a Biden Administration proposal to force banks to report to the IRS on their account holders’…
More Audits Don’t Mean More Money, Just More Intrusion By The IRS
The Biden plan for building America back better has a pretty hefty price tag attached to it. It includes $3 trillion in new and higher taxes, more government regulation, and…
The Unforeseen Consequences of New York City’s Vaccine Passports
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio’s ability to govern terribly is second to none. He has overseen a historic crime spike coinciding with a drastic decline in community–police relations.…
TikTok collected data from mobile devices to track Android users: report
Video app TikTok, which has come under intense scrutiny from the U.S. government, sidestepped Google policy and collected user-specific data from Android phones that allowed the company to track users without…
New Home Security Systems Could Be Next Big Tech Privacy Invasion
When Facebook started out, most Americans thought they were getting a free service to help them connect with family and friends and that Facebook would be funded by the advertisements…
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FTC – Coalition Letter on Data Sharing Practices of Ring
Dear Chairman Simons, The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) should open an investigation into Ring—a subsidiary of Amazon—and its data-sharing practices with law enforcement officials. Ring’s conduct raises a…
Buyer Beware of Big Tech on the Doorstep
The video doorbell is by far one of the most ubiquitous smart home devices. In 2018 alone, consumers spent more than $530 million on a total of 3.4 million units, putting…
Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered
Investor’s Business Daily Facebook faces what some are calling an “existential crisis” over revelations that its user data fell into the hands of the Trump campaign. Whether or not the…
A Black Box in Your Car: Safety Feature or Privacy Violation?
What if it was possible to prevent up to 80 percent of those crashes simply by incorporating a few new pieces of technology into automobiles? Driver assisted vehicles boast both…
What We Lose if We Give Up Privacy
A civil libertarian reflects on the dangers of the surveillance state. by Peggy Noonan What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary,…