Controversial gunshot-detection company ShotSpotter has deployed more than 25,000 microphones across 170 cities worldwide. This week, WIRED and South Side Weekly revealed the company may continue to provide gunshot data to police in cities even after contracts have ended. Internal emails seen by the publications suggest ShotSpotter sensors may have stayed online despite law enforcement […]
Photek’s controversial follow up to Modus Operandi is set for reissue Solaris is polarising. There’s no two ways around that fact, even 24 years after its original September 2000 release. The divisive second album by 90s d&b legend and Metalheadz alumni Photek, who these days recently resurfaced in Miami for a coveted but exceedingly rare […]
John Grant has shared a controversial new single from his much-anticipated new album The Art Of The Lie, due out June 14 via [PIAS] Recordings. The sumptuous, synth-laden single and LP highlight ‘The Child Catcher‘ sees Grant meditating on the mental stain left on anyone who encounted the demonic villain of the film ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’, who would entice children […]
President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term extension of controversial surveillance efforts after the provision easily cleared Capitol Hill as part of an annual defense policy bill. Last week House and Senate lawmakers voted in favor of the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would keep the digital snooping programs authorized under […]
The British government’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally completed its passage through parliament on Tuesday, marking the end of one of the most (if not the most) fraught episodes in the United Kingdom’s recent legislative history. The origin and intention of the new law — which began three prime ministers and seven secretaries of state […]
The UK government appears to have pulled back on a controversial clause in its forthcoming Online Safety Bill that would have forced tech companies to snoop on users’ messages. Clause 110 of the mammoth piece of legislation enables regulator Ofcom to force messaging providers to use “accredited technology” to perform so-called “client-side scanning.” That is, […]