Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Homeland Security’s Biometrics Database Is on Its Way to the Amazon Cloud
May 7th, 2020Via: Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department is in the midst of migrating its central biometric database—used to store, manage and disseminate biometric data on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals—to the Amazon Web Services GovCloud, the first step in a major overhaul of the decades-old legacy system.
“Big Doctor”: Fever-Reading Drones Just The Beginning
May 4th, 2020Via: Miami Herald: Last month, police departments in Daytona Beach and Connecticut unveiled what was initially touted as a potential new tool against a pandemic: drones capable of taking a person’s temperature from 300 feet in the air. Both agencies quickly backtracked on using the machines to track the novel coronavirus after backlash from civil […]
Coronavirus Health Passports for UK ‘Possible in Months’
May 3rd, 2020Here we go. Via: Guardian: Tech firms are in talks with ministers about creating health passports to help Britons return safely to work using coronavirus testing and facial recognition. Facial biometrics could be used to help provide a digital certificate – sometimes known as an immunity passport – proving which workers have had Covid-19, as […]
Apple Data Shows Shelter-In-Place Is Ending, Whether Governments Want It To Or Not
May 3rd, 2020Via: Forbes: Bye-bye shelter-in-place. Hello re-opening. Apple’s Mobility Trends report shows that traffic in the US and other countries like Germany has pretty much doubled in the past three weeks. It had been down up to 72%. And location data provider Foursquare says that gas and fast food visits are back to pre-COVID-19 levels in […]
Judge Allows Warrantless Aerial Surveillance Of Baltimore
May 1st, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: The planes will be used to “investigate murders, nonfatal shootings, armed robberies, and carjackings. Weather permitting, the aircraft will fly at least 40 hours a week and cover about 90 percent of the city,” said AP. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) represents the think tank and community groups that filed the federal […]
Contact Tracing With The Clintons [???]
April 30th, 2020You’ll love this one. Via: Please Stop the Ride:
Flaw in iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years
April 22nd, 2020Via: Reuters: Apple Inc is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client […]
50 Headlines: Welcome to the “New Normal”
April 16th, 2020Via: Off Guardian: Always remember that these Measures are for your own good.
“Lifekey Immunity Bands”
April 7th, 2020Via: Buckrail: Lifekey has introduced a new technology that could help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in your community and help people get back to work and travel post-quarantine. “We have already built a secure, HIPAA compliant platform for you to store and share your personal medical data when it’s needed most,” said Lifekey CEO, […]
Google Releases Location Data To Help Authorities Check Lock-Downs
April 4th, 2020Via: silicon.co.uk: Location data is being released by Google in 131 countries so officials can see if people are obeying self-isolating rules Alphabet’s Google division has on Thursday published data for 131 countries that shows whether people are obeying self-isolating and quarantine rules.
