EFF: EFF Unveils Virtual Reality Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices in Their Communities
EFF Unveils Virtual Reality Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices in Their Communities Law Enforcement’s Deployment of High-Tech Spying Tools On the Rise San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a virtual reality (VR) experience on its website today that teaches people how to spot and understand the surveillance technologies police are increasingly using to spy on communities. “We are living in an age of surveillance, where hard-to-spot cameras capture our faces and our license plates, drones in the sky videotape our streets, and police carry mobile biometric devices to scan people’s fingerprints,” said EFF Senior Investigative Researcher Dave Maass. “We made our ‘Spot the Surveillance’ VR tool to help people recognize these spying technologies around them and understand what their capabilities are. Spot the Surveillance, which works best with a VR headset but will also work on standard browsers, places users in a 360-degree street scene in Sa...