A Texas judge arrested for making a secret deal committing his county to a 10-year contract with a red-light camera company was suspended Tuesday…
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Terrorism Database Used by Governments and Banks Leaked Online…
A researcher has obtained a copy of Thomson Reuters’ ”World-Check” confidential intelligence database, which is used by governments, intelligence agencies, banks, law firms and more…
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Facebook Hack Shows It’s Time to Upgrade Our Method of Verifying Identity…
The hacker tricked Facebook’s customer support into resetting the victim’s password and disable the account’s security mechanisms by pretending to be his victim…
Cops Getting Free License Plate Readers In Exchange For 25% Of The ‘Take’ And All The Driver Data Vigilant Can Slurp…
Vigilant Solutions in Texas is offering ‘a whole suite of automated license plate reader (ALPR) equipment and access to the company’s massive databases and analytical tools…
FBI’s Secret Surveillance Tech Budget Is ‘Hundreds of Millions’…
The FBI has “hundreds of millions of dollars” to spend on developing technology for use in both national security and domestic law enforcement investigations…
Are You Obsessed With Your Phone? Researchers Reveal Addicts Touch Their Handset a Whopping 5,400 Times a DAY!…
The study found that the average person swipes, taps and pinches their display about 2,617 times a day, for a grand total of one million times per year…
Europe’s Robots Would Become ‘Electronic Persons’ Under Draft Plan…
Good luck with that. What about the rest of the world, where automation is rolling out without restriction?…
Senate Falls 1 Vote Short of Giving FBI Access to Browser Histories Without Court Order…
Privacy-minded senators on Wednesday blocked an amendment that would give the FBI power to take internet records, including browser histories and email metadata, without a court order…
DOJ Insists That Rule 41 Change Is Not Important, Nothing To See Here, Move On Annoying Privacy Activist People…
A judicial panel approved the DOJ’s proposed changes, and the Supreme Court gave its blessing a month later. The rule changes are set to go into effect on December 1st if…
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Long-Awaited Domestic Drone Rules Won’t Stop Peeping Drones…
Despite recognizing that drones “pose risks to individual privacy,” the FAA declined to issue any privacy regulations at all…
Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests…
The FBI’s effort has been prompted not by DOJ concerns, but by Silicon Valley companies refusing to share anything beyond the basic subscriber information…
How the Internet Works: Submarine Fibre, Brains in Jars, and Coaxial Cables…
A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to a subsea cable landing site…
Ransomware ‘Flocker’ Capable of Locking Smart TVs…
If a malware affects one of these devices, the said malware may eventually affect the others, too…
Where Google Does Not Go: What is Hidden Underneath Open Websites…
The desire to find out what secrets are hidden in the web has led to the emergence of a community of so-called NetStalkers…
How a College Student Tricked 17k Coders Into Running His Sketchy Script…
Infecting military and government software engineers is easier than you may think…
Manners Maketh Nan: Google Praises 86-Year-Old for Polite Internet Searches…
Grandson says May Ashworth believed she was writing to a person at Google HQ when typing in search queries…
FBI Says Utility Pole Surveillance Cam Locations Must be Kept Secret…
FBI has successfully convinced a federal judge to block the disclosure of where the bureau has attached surveillance cams on Seattle utility poles…
The FBI Has Collected Over 411M Photos for Its Facial Recognition System…
The bureau has compiled over 411 million photos, including more than 173 million driver’s license photos, as part of the new biometric effort…
Open to Inspection: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in the Age of Surveillance…
By now it goes without saying or objection in most quarters of a once freedom-loving and democratic society that our lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness are closely…
New Startup That Sends Dossiers On Your Private Social Media Profiles To Potential Landlords Should Be Illegal…
A new startup wants to take a “deep dive” into the private social media activity of prospective tenants—their chats, check-ins, how many times they’ve posted words like…