News Delhi police deploys drones to monitor anti-CAA protest centre Shaheen Bagh Yet again, the Delhi police turns to drones to monitor dissenters – this time in Shaheen Bagh. According to Awaz the Voice, there was... Vallari SanzgiriOctober 1, 2022
News Soon, Telangana’s aspiring civil servants must provide biometrics for recruitment exams Facial recognition, biometric, and personal information of civil service exam candidates will be recorded to prevent malpractices during exams in Telangana Vallari SanzgiriSeptember 14, 2022
News Ministry of Defence to sharpen drone imaging for land surveys, releases white paper for comments The Ministry of Defence calls for stakeholder comments on paper to set standards on drone image quality amid expanding uses of the technology Vallari SanzgiriSeptember 12, 2022
News Exclusive: Behaviour and protest monitoring a part of Jabalpur Municipal Corporation’s surveillance tender A tender by the civic body in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh seeks an integrated surveillance system for monitoring 'behaviours', controlling protests, more Akshit ChawlaSeptember 9, 2022
News J&K police floats tenders to branch out its CCTV surveillance network Police wants an FRT system in the Jammu and Kashmir UT with a database that can store details of more than 10,000 people Vallari SanzgiriSeptember 9, 2022
News The UK’s Tryst With Post-Brexit Tech Policy: The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill Will the United Kingdom's Data Protection and Digital Information Bill streamline data protection regulations as intended? Aarathi GanesanSeptember 8, 2022
News Report shows how Fog Data Science sold data of millions of innocent Americans to local police The Electronic Freedom Foundation reports on how Fog Data Science collects troves of location data from Americans and sells it to the police Akshit ChawlaSeptember 5, 2022
News Why the US FTC wants to crack down on big tech data collection and how does it plan to do so The FTC announced that it is exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and is seeking public comments on the same Sarvesh MathiSeptember 2, 2022
News ‘NSA Surveillance not beyond reach of courts’: Wikimedia brings suit in US Supreme Court against ‘Upstream’ program Wikimedia makes the case that state secrets cannot be grounds to prevent judicial scrutiny of such a surveillance program Aarathi GanesanAugust 30, 2022
News Inspecting students’ rooms before online exams is unconstitutional, US Federal judge rules U.S. court rules online proctoring practices in remote exams, like room scaning, tracking eye movements, etc., a Fourth Amendment violation Akshit ChawlaAugust 26, 2022