Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Another Whistle Blower Discusses Google’s Political Agenda
August 14th, 2019Via: Project Veritas:
FBI Raids Epstein Island
August 13th, 2019Someone going by the name Rusty Shackleford has been flying a drone over the island for weeks. They managed to catch some video of the recent FBI raid: Via: Daily Mail: FBI agents were seen raiding Jeffrey Epstein’s private US Virgin Island, which has been dubbed ‘Pedophile Island’, as the sex trafficking probe around the […]
DARPA: OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) Program
August 9th, 2019Coming to a favela near you! Via: The Verge: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is experimenting with using a swarm of autonomous drones and ground robots to assist with military missions. In a video of a recent test, DARPA showed how its robots analyzed two city blocks to find, surround, and secure a […]
Apple Offers $1 Million for iOS Zero Clicks Kernel Hack
August 8th, 2019Via: Forbes: Apple has massively increased the amount it’s offering hackers for finding vulnerabilities in iPhones and Macs, up to $1 million. It’s by far the highest bug bounty on offer from any major tech company. That’s up from $200,000, and in the fall the program will be open to all researchers. Previously only those […]
Amazon Is Developing High-Tech Surveillance Tools for an Eager Customer: America’s Police
August 8th, 2019Via: NBC: Amazon, known mainly for its online consumer marketplace, is becoming a potent resource for federal, state and local authorities, peddling an array of tools that harness the power of cloud-based computing, artificial intelligence and video analysis. Some of the products seem mundane, offering agencies a relatively cheap method of storing, sharing and crunching […]
The Military-Style Surveillance Technology Being Tested in American Cities
August 4th, 2019Via: The Atlantic: In the eyes of the law, there’s no difference between a photo taken by a smartphone through an airplane window and one taken by an ultrapowerful camera in a helicopter hovering over your backyard. … Capitalizing on this gap, as some might call it, in standing privacy law, wide-area-camera manufacturers and users […]
Pentagon Testing Mass Surveillance Balloons Across the U.S.
August 2nd, 2019Via: Guardian: The US military is conducting wide-area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal. Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, […]
Apple Contractors Regularly Hear Siri Recordings of Drug Deals, Medical Details and People Having Sex
July 29th, 2019Via: Guardian: Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned. Although Apple does not explicitly disclose it in its consumer-facing privacy documentation, a small proportion of Siri recordings are […]
Chicago: Police Build Profiles on People Who Speak at Public Board Meetings
July 24th, 2019Via: Chicago Tribune: Chicago police have for years compiled profiles on every citizen who spoke at public meetings of the city’s police disciplinary panel, a process that included running criminal background checks and internet searches on activists, a police union official and even relatives of an innocent woman killed in a high-profile police shooting, the […]
Russia’s Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: ‘Largest Data Breach In Its History’
July 21st, 2019Via: Forbes: Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia’s Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest […]
