Big Brother is watching you — but now, with a new set of apps from citizens group OpenWatch, you can spy on that nosy punk right back. Started by 23-year-old Boston University graduate and ...

"Who watches the watchers?" goes the adage that's more relevant than ever in a world of pervasive surveillance cameras and arrests for filming police. Rich Jones has one suggestion: your phone. Jones ...

Blocks, a company behind the world’s first modular smartwatch, has just announced a new operating system for smartwatches, the so-called ‘Project OpenWatch’, though this is not a full-fledged OS, ...

After the recent Vancouver riots, it became clear that the world is surveiling itself at an unprecedented scale. Angry citizens gave police one million photos and 1,000 hours of video footage to help ...

It has been years since the first smartwatches came to market and while that market is more or less stable, it hasn't exactly grown. That's especially true for Android Wear that remains a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Soon, there could be a number of indie operating systems for your smartwatch, sprouting from an open-source code ...

Earlier this week, I noted a new suite of police-policing apps including OpenWatch and Cop Recorder, which turn your phone into a "reverse surveillance camera" for secretly recording run-ins with ...

There are three big names in the smartwatch operating system space at the moment: Apple’s WatchOS, Google’s Android Wear, and Samsung’s Tizen. But the makers of the upcoming BLOCKS modular smartwatch ...