Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Air Force Wants Miniature Drone to Covertly Drop Tracking Dust Onto People
April 28th, 2011Via: Wired: Here’s how the U.S. Air Force wants to hunt the next generation of its enemies: A tiny drone sneaks up to a suspect, paints him with an unnoticed powder or goo that allows American forces to follow him everywhere he goes — until they train a missile on him. On Tuesday, the Air […]
No Prosecution Seen for Official in NSA Leak
April 27th, 2011It’s better if as little attention as possible is directed at the NSA’s mass communications intercept program targeting Americans. Via: New York Times: A former Justice Department official who told Newsweek that he was one of the sources for a 2005 article in The New York Times about the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping […]
Microsoft Collects Locations of Windows Phone Users
April 27th, 2011Via: Cnet: Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. Windows Phone 7, supported by manufacturers including Dell, HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung, transmits to Microsoft a miniature data dump including a unique device ID, details about nearby Wi-Fi networks, and the phone’s GPS-derived […]
Kings Point, New York: ‘The Most Extensive Municipal Surveillance System In The United States’
April 26th, 2011Via: CBS: The wealthy Long Island village is planning an extensive network of security cameras that scan license plates to help reduce the number of property and home invasion crimes. The 3.3-square mile North Shore community is home to 5,000 residents. The plan calls for 44 cameras to eventually be installed at the village’s 19 […]
Apple: We ‘Must Have’ Comprehensive User Location Data On You
April 25th, 2011Via: International Business Times: In June 2010, Congressmen Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs inquiring about Apple’s privacy policy and location-based services In response the company’s general counsel Bruce Sewall wrote a letter explaining its practice, and shedding light on the rationale the company uses […]
NSA Building New Supercomputing Center
April 25th, 2011Via: Information Week: The National Security Agency is designing a new $895.6 million supercomputing center that will be constructed at its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters over the next several years, Department of Defense budget documents reveal.
Both Apple and Google Receive Smartphone Users’ Locations
April 22nd, 2011Via: Wall Street Journal: Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data. Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their race […]
iPhone Keeps Secret Record of Everywhere You Go
April 20th, 2011Via: Guardian: Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronised. The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone’s recorded coordinates along […]
Michigan Police Copying Smartphone Data During Routine Traffic Stops?
April 20th, 2011Via: Popular Mechanics: In Michigan, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a complaint alleging that Michigan State Police officers used forensic cellphone analyzers to snoop in drivers’ cellphones during routine traffic stops. PM talked to a Fourth Amendment expert to sort through whether that amendment’s protections against illegal search and seizure should stop […]
FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botnet
April 17th, 2011Alternate headline: FBI Obtains Distributed Denial of Service Capability for Free. Interestingly, in other recent news, the government is stepping up propaganda efforts on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace scheme, which is ‘voluntary‘, of course… Translation: They want you to use NSTIC. They want you to want to use it. There are […]
