Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Google’s Eric Schmidt: 1.3 Million Android Activations a Day
September 6th, 2012So it goes… Via: Engadget: Kicking off the Motorola event in NYC, Google’s Eric Schmidt has revealed some new Android figures for its captive audience of journalists and bloggers. It’s now notching up some 1.3 million activations a day, which includes around 70,000 tablets (“We were late to them”, notes Schmidt) every 24 hours. Related: […]
Feds Say Mobile-Phone Location Data Not ‘Constitutionally Protected’
September 6th, 2012Via: Wired: The Obama administration told a federal court Tuesday that the public has no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in cellphone location data, and hence the authorities may obtain documents detailing a person’s movements from wireless carriers without a probable-cause warrant. Related: ‘Cell phones are tracking devices that make phone calls.’
Texas: Resistance to RFID Tracking of Students
September 5th, 2012Via: Blacklisted News: Research Credit: almaverdad2
Leave Your Cellphone at Home: Interview with Jacob Appelbaum
September 5th, 2012This is worth reading, but the usual caveats apply. Via: n+1: Appelbaum: Cell phones are tracking devices that make phone calls. It’s sad, but it’s true. Which means software solutions don’t always matter. You can have a secure set of tools on your phone, but it doesn’t change the fact that your phone tracks everywhere […]
Australia: The Plan to Store Internet Activity Records for Two Years
September 5th, 2012Via: Sydney Morning Herald: The Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, appears to have swung her support behind a controversial plan to capture the online data of all Australians, despite only six weeks ago saying ”the case had yet to be made” for the policy. The data retention plan – which would force all Australian telcos and internet […]
Estonia to Teach Programming in Schools from Age 6
September 5th, 2012Via: Geek.com: With the launch of the Raspberry Pi, computers are becoming affordable again for the younger generations. Now what we need is kids learning about computers in greater detail, including what the hardware is inside the box, and how to create rather than just use software. Estonia looks to be the pace setter in […]
Television Stations Could Start Using Drones To Cover News Stories
September 5th, 2012Via: CBS: A drone originally developed for military use could soon be used by television stations and journalists as a news-gathering device. The Schiebel Corporation’s Camcopter, which is used by the United Arab Emirates Army and the Germany Navy, could soon be used for broadcasting purposes, according to TV News Check. “To me, the potential […]
Anonymous Claims FBI Hack Yielded 12 Million iPhone and iPad IDs
September 4th, 2012Update: Florida Firm Is Source of Apple Data in Breach Via: AP: A Florida company said Monday that the database of Apple device information that hackers stole and posted on the Internet last week came from a file the firm had in its computer system. The disclosure comes nearly a week after a hacker group, […]
EU Funding Orwellian Artificial Intelligence Plan to Monitor Public for ‘Abnormal Behavior’
September 4th, 2012Via: Telegraph: A five-year research programme, called Project Indect, aims to develop computer programmes which act as “agents” to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers. Its main objectives include the “automatic detection of threats and abnormal behaviour or violence”. Project Indect, which received nearly […]
FinFisher Spyware for Smartphones
September 3rd, 2012Via: Bloomberg: FinFisher spyware made by U.K.-based Gamma Group can take control of a range of mobile devices, including Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM)’s BlackBerry, an analysis of presumed samples of the software shows. The program can secretly turn on a device’s microphone, track its location and monitor e-mails, text […]
