Age-verification mandates create barriers along lines of race, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigration status, and socioeconomic class. Here’s 10 (not so) hidden ways how.
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10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A h...
Face recognition is too dangerous for police use and undermines individual privacy. That's why Axon's new test integrating this tech into body-worn cameras is such an alarming development.
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Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn camera...
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EFF has long warned about police use of facial recognition technology. Now we're seeing exactly what we feared: Axon is testing this tech in body-worn cameras.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn camera...
Records newly obtained by @RANGEMedia4all show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at political protests this year.
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Protested this year? Cops might’ve looked for you on Flock cams. – RANGE Media
Newly obtained records show that the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office made 24 searches across thousands of cameras for cars at protests.
Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn camera...
India's government reportedly is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location tracking that is always activated for better surveillance. EFF’s Cooper Quintin calls it “pretty horrifying.” https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-weighs-greater-phone-location-surveillance-apple-google-samsung-protest-2025-12-05/
“Deploying this unreliable, discriminatory, and dangerous surveillance technology at the border just to save a few pounds creates massive risks to the human rights, safety, and well-being of asylum seekers,” EFF’s Molly Buckley told Inkstick Media.
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American AI Arrives on Fortress Europe's Borders. At What Cost?
American tech companies are increasingly providing AI surveillance technology that is being used on European borders.