Surveillance
The age scanner "nightmare"
A popular new idea for safeguarding the web ranges from "'somewhat privacy violating' to 'authoritarian nightmare.'"
Surveillance
Caught by push alert
A basic staple of modern smartphones becomes an FBI secret weapon.
Surveillance
Tracking Taylor Swift's jet
Her attorneys say the accounts are stalker tools. The student says the data is public and that "her team thinks they can control the world."
Money
An undercover Trump trade
The men who made millions in insider trades related to a Truth Social deal - and the federal agents who tracked them down.
Surveillance
How the police get your prescription
America's largest pharmacy chains are handing over customers’ most intimate medical records in the store. And it's completely legal.
AI
Ukrainian psychological warfare
A gruesome facial recognition campaign targeting Russian mothers was, as one Ukrainian wrote, “the only way to stop all this madness."
Modern life
Scanning the neighborhood
"This is not just for million-dollar homes. This is America at its core."
Surveillance
The princess escape
“Shoot me here. Don’t take me back,” she’d screamed as commandos dragged her off the yacht. Then she disappeared.
Surveillance
Sedition hunt
"Today it’s almost impossible not to leave your footprints somewhere."
Modern life
Student surveillance
“That anxiety you feel for those 10 seconds? … That’s how basically all of us feel” all the time.
Surveillance
"Sometimes I just watch"
They think, ‘If I put all these cameras up, I’ll be safe.’ Safe from what? … It’s only making them more afraid."
Modern life
Face scan summer camp
"This idea where you have to be happy all the time: That’s not real, and yet that’s what we’re chasing and what we’re looking for when we want all these pictures all the time.”
Modern life
Menstrual surveillance
“I want them to have a healthy baby because it’s great for our business experience. Rather than having a baby who’s in the neonatal ICU, where she’s not able to focus much on work."
Modern life
The perfect babysitter
“Social media shows a person’s character. So why did she come in at a 2 and not a 1?”