Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
No Charges in Pennsylvania School Laptop-Spying Case
August 19th, 2010Via: AP: Federal prosecutors will not file charges against a school district or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students. U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent by Lower Merion School District employees who activated tracking software that took thousands of webcam and screenshot […]
Remember the One About the Couple with the “Hit List” in Alaska? Drug Addled Husband Had Some Help from Undercover Cop
August 17th, 2010Via: AP: A rural Alaska couple accused of domestic terrorism compiled a hit list of 20 targets, including members of the military and media, and had moved to the operational phase of their plan, according to documents filed in federal court Monday. Paul and Nadia Rockwood of King Salmon have pleaded guilty to lying about […]
‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Partially Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years
August 11th, 2010Via: Wired: The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself […]
DARPA Driving Development of Exascale Computers
August 11th, 2010Via: BBC: Computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second are being planned by the US military. The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has awarded the first grants to firms it wants to build so-called exascale computers. These will be far more powerful than current top supercomputers which manage just over one petaflop […]
Berkeley: Sensor Package Models Building Interiors
August 11th, 2010Shrink it down so that it fits on the remote controlled cyborg beetle. Uhh, yeah. Via: ABC: Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a laser backpack that scans its surroundings and creates an instant 3D model. It can make video games more realistic and buildings more energy efficient. They are driving to discover a model […]
Google Raided by Korea Police in Probe of Street View
August 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: South Korean police raided Google Inc.’s Seoul office as part of an investigation into possible breaches of privacy laws resulting from the company’s collection of data for its Street View mapping service. Law-enforcement officials confiscated materials from Google in a raid today and will ask the company to surrender all data that may […]
Proposed Law Would Put Video Cameras In Cars
August 10th, 2010I’m sure the FBI wouldn’t access these cameras, like they access the microphones on the cell phones that people are carrying around. Oh no. Never. Via: CBS: Lawmakers are considering controversial new legislation this week that would allow vehicles to be equipped with dashboard cameras to record the moments leading up to accidents. The proposed […]
Appeals Court Rules Against Secret Police GPS Tracking
August 9th, 2010Via: Wired: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the police can’t covertly track a suspect’s car using a GPS device for an extended period of time without getting a warrant. The ruling in the D.C. Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of a suspected cocaine dealer, saying that the use of a secret GPS […]
Google’s CEO: Technology Good, Anonymity “Dangerous”
August 5th, 2010Via: Cnet: For those concerned with privacy, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave them a few more things to start worrying about.
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
August 4th, 2010Via: Cnet: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial […]
