Dylan Schmidt

05/01/2026

Police across the country are using license plate cameras to stalk their exes, girlfriends, and in one Florida case a complete stranger spotted on a TV set

04/23/2026

A brand new Citizen Lab report reveals all someone needs to track your phone is your number, because the global network that routes every call on Earth has no passwords and no encryption

04/21/2026

Ken Klippenstein reports how Homeland Security is quietly in the process of making glasses that let federal agents ID you from across the street

04/01/2026

Couldn't have done this without you

Happy first day of April

03/26/2026

03/18/2026

The Independent found ICE agents recording communities with smart glasses that have no chain of custody, no encryption, and no public records

03/12/2026

DHS is installing hundreds of agentic AI towers that decide who looks suspicious and can dispatch drones without a human ever watching

03/09/2026

Mother Jones reports DHS lost access to a secret flight tracking pipeline after 404 Media exposed it, so now they’re on a federal contracting site looking for a replacement

03/07/2026

Cindy Cohn has spent 30+ years as head of the defending our digital privacy.
Fighting the NSA, protecting encryption, and taking on government surveillance.

Her keynote at SCaLE was incredible.

Her book Privacy’s Defender drops Tuesday.
Can’t wait to read it.

03/04/2026

404 Media reports that Customs and Border Protection bought online ad‑tech data from apps like games, dating services, and fitness trackers to track people’s precise movements over time.