Practices

Apple investors bucked the company’s recommendations and approved a “civil rights audit” while rejecting a proposal calling for a report on Chinese forced labor.

The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends universal COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing, instead saying health departments should direct those efforts to specific high-risk settings.

Read one report representing the Russian side, two reports representing the Ukrainian side.

The National Endowment for Democracy can claim it is in the business of democracy promotion. In reality, it does anything but that, unless “democracy” is entirely synonymous with elite U.S. interests.

The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps.

Racial minorities are "more at risk" of being spied on by New York City’s massive facial recognition surveillance machine.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reportedly sued Facebook on Monday for violating the state's privacy protections for personal biometric data through facial recognition technology it used until recently.

Google tracking scripts on websites are scooping up data on visitors.

The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices.

The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would amend the Affordable Care Act to add an allowance for transition surgeries and hormone therapies.