December 2, 2020 No Comments biometrics, bipa, facial recognition, privacy, Security, surveillance
Massachusetts lawmakers vote to pass a statewide police ban on facial recognition Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass a new police reform bill that will ban police departments and public agencies from using facial recognition technology across the state. The bill was passed by both the state’s House and Senate on Tuesday, […]
October 14, 2020 No Comments Security, Security / Privacy, surveillance
Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic From arrests to surveillance, governments are using the novel coronavirus as cover for a crackdown on digital liberty. Source: www.wired.com Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic
September 29, 2020 No Comments AI, Artificial Intelligence, funding, russia, surveillance, TC
Russian surveillance tech startup NtechLab nets M from sovereign wealth funds NtechLab, a startup that helps analyze footage captured by Moscow’s 100,000 surveillance cameras, just closed an investment of more than 1RUB billion ($13 million) to further global expansion. The five-year-old company sells software that recognizes faces, silhouettes and actions on videos. […]
September 11, 2020 No Comments anduril, defense, department of defense, surveillance, TC, Trump administration
Anduril launches a smarter drone and picks up more money to build a virtual border wall The company building the virtual border wall has a new version of its stealthy fast-flying drones — and a fresh contract with Customs and Border Protection to match. Anduril, a young defense-friendly tech company from the […]
September 10, 2020 No Comments digital privacy, facial recognition, surveillance, TC
Portland passes expansive city ban on facial recognition tech The city council in Portland, Oregon passed legislation Wednesday that’s widely regarded as the most aggressive municipal ban on facial recognition technology so far. Through a pair of ordinances, Portland will both prohibit city bureaus from using the controversial technology and stop private […]
August 20, 2020 No Comments defense, Government, Palantir, surveillance, TC
Palantir moves its HQ from Palo Alto to Denver as plans to go public percolate Between the IPO buzz and a raft of new federal contracts for COVID-19 work, it’s been a year of big moves for Palantir. Now, the company is making a more literal one: decamping from its Palo Alto […]
August 5, 2020 No Comments Black Hat 2020, Cell phones, dc, Def Con 2020, Electronic Frontier Foundation, law enforcement, mobile phone, mobile security, privacy, San Francisco, Security, surveillance, telecommunications, United States, washington DC
A new technique can detect newer 4G ‘stingray’ cell phone snooping Security researchers say they have developed a new technique to detect modern cell-site simulators. Cell site simulators, known as “stingrays,” impersonate cell towers and can capture information about any phone in its range — including in some cases calls, messages and […]
July 23, 2020 No Comments Education, facial recognition, New York, privacy, surveillance, TC
New York legislature votes to halt facial recognition tech in schools for two years The state of New York voted this week to pause any implementation of facial recognition technology in schools for two years. The moratorium, approved by the New York Assembly and Senate Wednesday, comes after an upstate school district […]
July 14, 2020 No Comments 5g, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, BT, Cell phones, China, Companies, Data Mining, dataminr, Decrypted, Facebook, george floyd, google, Government, huawei, internet data, iPhone, law enforcement, Microsoft, Officer, Palantir, Peter Thiel, privacy, Security, spokesperson, supreme court, surveillance, TechCrunch, technology, telecommunications, telecoms infrastructure, Twitter, United Kingdom, United States
Decrypted: As tech giants rally against Hong Kong security law, Apple holds out It’s not often Silicon Valley gets behind a single cause. Supporting net neutrality was one, reforming government surveillance another. Last week, Big Tech took up its latest: halting any cooperation with Hong Kong police. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and […]
July 10, 2020 No Comments cbp, law enforcement, national security, optical character recognition, Prevention, privacy, Security, surveillance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, United States
CBP says it’s ‘unrealistic’ for Americans to avoid its license plate surveillance U.S. Customs and Border Protection has admitted that there is no practical way for Americans to avoid having their movements tracked by its license plate readers, according to its latest privacy assessment. CBP published its new assessment — three years […]
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