police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US. Powered by WPeMatico
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cars, patents, police, Security technology, Uncategorized
Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread. Powered by WPeMatico
fbi, identification, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant. The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Apple and Google demanded that the companies hand over … Read More “Surveillance through Push Notifications” »
data privacy, healthcare, law enforcement, medicine, police, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized
Add pharmacies to the list of industries that are giving private data to the police without a warrant. Powered by WPeMatico
healthcare, medicine, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
More unconstrained surveillance: Lawmakers noted the pharmacies’ policies for releasing medical records in a letter dated Tuesday to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. The letter—signed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.)—said their investigation pulled information from briefings with eight big prescription … Read More “Police Get Medical Records without a Warrant” »
backdoors, cryptography, eavesdropping, encryption, infrastructure, law enforcement, police, radio, Security technology, Uncategorized
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, … Read More “Backdoor in TETRA Police Radios” »
artificial intelligence, cyberattack, impersonation, police, Security technology, Uncategorized
Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”: In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High School were just one small part of a months-long, nationwide campaign of dozens, and potentially hundreds, of threats made by one swatter in particular who has weaponized computer generated voices. Known as … Read More “Swatting as a Service” »
cars, impersonation, police, radio, Security technology, Uncategorized
Here’s a story about a hacker who reprogrammed a device called “Flipper Zero” to mimic Opticom transmitters—to turn traffic lights in his path green. As mentioned earlier, the Flipper Zero has a built-in sub-GHz radio that lets the device receive data (or transmit it, with the right firmware in approved regions) on the same wireless … Read More “A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green” »
amazon, cameras, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes. The Amazon company responded to an inquiry from US Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), confirming that there have been 11 cases in 2022 where … Read More “Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent” »
cameras, police, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
Surely no one could have predicted this: The new proposal—championed by Mayor London Breed after November’s wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area—would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live monitor “significant events with public safety concerns” and ongoing felony or misdemeanor … Read More “San Francisco Police Want Real-Time Access to Private Surveillance Cameras” »