Privacy

Illustrated poster in red, black, and beige showing a stern man in a suit, a surveillance camera pointed at the rear of a car, and bold text reading 'LICENSE PLATE READERS' at the top and 'BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING' at the bottom, evoking a warning about government surveillance.

Big Brother Is Watching—Through Your License Plate

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Big Brother Is Watching—Through Your License Plate You don’t need to break the law to end up in a police database. Just drive. Across Massachusetts and much of the country, police are using Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs)—high-speed cameras that scan every car that passes. These machines don’t just check for stolen cars. They store … Read More

Your DNA in the info-verse

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In an age when corporations are asking us to trust them with our genetic confidences, we generally are exchanging it for something we crave: insight into our ancestral origins, connection with unknown relatives, solutions to family mysteries, an understand or our genetic traits, or to foster a sense of cultural, ethnic or racial identity. For … Read More