GigaTap articles tagged surveillance.
- Canada’s Bill C-22 Pushes Encryption Toward Built-In Access Risk - Bill C-22 expands surveillance powers in Canada and introduces mechanisms that could force access paths into encrypted systems, raising structural privacy
- SignalTrace ALPR: From vehicle tracking to identity graphs - Roadside ALPR systems are merging plate reads with device signals, shifting surveillance from vehicles to probabilistic identity inference.
- Statement end: why ISS World Europe now needs scrutiny - EDRi’s call to cut ties with ISS World Europe turns a surveillance trade fair into an operational due-diligence problem for public bodies, universities, an
- EPIC Coalition Targets ALPR Creep With a Tolling-Only Line - EPIC and more than 40 groups are urging Congress to limit automatic license plate readers to tolling. The practical issue is purpose control, not just data
- Plate Readers Are Becoming School Residency Tools - EFF’s ALPR audit-log analysis shows police using Flock Safety data for school residency checks and other low-level matters, not only serious crime.
- Healthcare AI Is Moving Faster Than Its Evidence - AI Now’s new healthcare work focuses on the gap between vendor claims and what AI systems do to patients, workers, budgets, and accountability.
- Canada’s Bill C-22 tests the line on encrypted messages - Bill C-22 is moving through Canada’s Parliament with lawful-access powers that CDT says could threaten end-to-end encryption through secret compelled acces
- Surveillance Abuse Needs Hard Limits - EFF’s new guide argues that weak oversight, vague laws, and poor remedies are letting digital surveillance abuses become routine in the Americas.
- ALPR Mission Creep Is Already Writing Tickets - A Georgia phone-use citation shows how license plate reader networks drift from “serious crime” tools into everyday enforcement.
- EU Chat Control 1.0 Failed Over Safeguards, Not Just Politics - The EU’s interim ePrivacy derogation collapsed because lawmakers could not agree on surveillance limits, not because one side dismissed child safety.
- Section 702 Renewal and VPN Users: The Practical Surveillance Risk Nobody Should Ignore - Section 702 renewal could widen surveillance risk for VPN users if their traffic or identity is treated as foreign under US law.
- How Governments Weaponize 'Safety' Laws to Silence Activists and Journalists - EFF exposes the global pattern: governments mask censorship as cybercrime prevention, targeting human rights defenders under the guise of online safety.