Surveillance

Modern societies, argues Michel Foucault, think and talk about sex far more than their forebears ever did. But this has not been liberating.

An outright ban is legally risky. Here are some safer options.

Bird flu now threatens more than birds. Early detection in both birds and marine mammals remains crucial, and management must adapt as new evidence emerges.

Who gets to authorise such deployments? And who checks the safeguards?

License plate readers are widely used in the US. A new product marketed to police departments promises to add the ability to sense phones and other devices in passing cars.

Grassroots activists and marginalized communities are ‘flipping the script’ on surveillance by watching, documenting and gathering information about powerful institutions such as ICE from below.

A growing body of research shows electronic monitoring rarely improves performance and reliably increases employee stress and distrust.

The US Supreme Court ruled that states could exclude transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports teams.

The World Cup is bringing visitors and AI-driven surveillance systems, but only one of those is certain to leave when the games are done.

Western Australia’s police are now scanning faces in real time. The technology works – roughly. The laws to govern it do not yet exist.

The use of artificial intelligence tools is among the top emerging issues in biodiversity conservation.

Democracies can either defend rights in the digital age, or drift into complicity as the architects of a new, global authoritarianism enabled by AI.

Data sovereignty is not just a technical issue — it is a collective challenge that all Canadians need to start taking seriously.

A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.

Many people welcome technology that will improve road safety or reduce congestion. But the rollout has proved unsettling.

When a big defence tech chief starts sounding off about civilisation, he’s not just expressing an opinion.

To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.

Expanding surveillance in supermarkets may deter theft, but it does little to address the structural causes of food insecurity and rising grocery prices.

New biometric and AI border systems in west Africa promise better security but may also undermine privacy, increase discrimination and limit free movement.

The current COVID-19 vaccine does not match the strain that’s now becoming dominant in the US, which could lead to a rise in COVID-19 cases.

What began as a tool to identify threats to national security is becoming a surveillance infrastructure that can be used to track everyone.

Your workplace wellbeing app may be doing more than tracking your mood. It could be analysing your voice, your words and your behaviour – and you may never have been told.

Interviews with people studying to become teachers in Ontario point to the need for systemic changes in schools to better reflect cultural and religious diversity.

Canada urgently needs stronger privacy laws, ones that deal explicitly with facial recognition.

Anthropic’s refusal to allow the U.S. Department of War unrestricted access to Claude raises questions for many nations.