Tag: surveillance
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The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency
[ad_1] Donald Trump appears to dream of being an American authoritarian should he return to office. The former US president, who on Tuesday secured enough delegates to win the 2024 Republican nomination, plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and house scores of them in large camps. He wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to…
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A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
[ad_1] Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines were covertly collecting face recognition data without their consent. The scandal started when a student using the alias SquidKid47 posted an image on Reddit showing a campus vending machine error message, “Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe,” displayed after…
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Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
[ad_1] Finding shell casings can be extremely difficult. A Los Angeles Police Department officer not authorized to speak to the media tells WIRED they’ve spent “hours” searching for bullet casings. Just because officers don’t find evidence of gunfire, they say, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. While SoundThinking says its alerts are reviewed by its Incident…
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How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000
[ad_1] Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet, and 100 hospitals in Romania go offline amid a major ransomware attack. [ad_2] Source link
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A Backroom Deal Looms Over a High-Stakes US Surveillance Fight
[ad_1] Johnson, notably, previously voted in favor of legislation that would have drastically reformed the 702 program with a slew of privacy protections. Despite the uncommon bipartisan support for reforming Section 702, sources familiar with the negotiations say pro-privacy amendments have a history of dying in backroom deals. An amendment proposed last summer to ban…
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Ring subscription prices are rising and customers aren’t happy at all
[ad_1] The latest increase means the Basic plan now costs double what it did in 2022 [ad_2] Source link
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Action Plan Against Misuse of Drugs in Jaipur: Intensified Surveillance and Stringent Measures | Jaipur News – Times of India
[ad_1] Jaipur: Surveillance of illegal sale of drugs which come under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act will be intensified as health department’s commissionerate of food safety and drug control (CFSDC) on Thursday decided to prepare an action plan to nab those who are selling NDPS drugs illegally.The monitoring will be strengthened across the…
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Opinion | How to Fix Section 702 Surveillance
[ad_1] Congress is still debating how to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, and doing it right has never been more important. The risk of terrorism has gone up since Hamas’s massacre in Israel, and the U.S. needs all the intel it can get to detect and prevent future attacks…
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A New US Privacy Bill Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying
[ad_1] In 1763, the radical journalist and colonial sympathizer John Wilkes published issue no. 45 of North Briton, a periodical of anonymous essays known for its virulent anti-Scottish drivel—and for viciously satirizing a British prime minister until he quit his job. The fallout from the subsequent plan of the British king, George III, to see…