Surveillance

Google's Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You've Been

Apr

2019

Google's Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You've Been

Do you know where you were five years ago? Did you have an Android phone at the time? It turns out Google might know--and it might be telling law enforcement.

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Google's Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works.

Apr

2019

Surveillance

Google's Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works.

Investigators have been tapping into the tech giant's enormous cache of location information in an effort to solve crimes.

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The Bio-Metric Nightmare Begins in Tampa

Apr

2019

Surveillance

The Bio-Metric Nightmare Begins in Tampa

Biometric face scans are now going to be the norm in Tampa and Atlanta!

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Dec

2018

Surveillance

Is Your EZ Pass Spying on You?

EZ Pass offers cashless, open road tolling across 17 states. The catch? States using the system might also be watching you.

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Ford CEO Frankly Admits That the Car of the Future Is a Surveillance Device That You Pay to Spy on You

Nov

2018

Surveillance

Ford CEO Frankly Admits That the Car of the Future Is a Surveillance Device That You Pay to Spy on You

Hackett vowed to increase that share by using the leverage he could exert over his debtors to force them to let him spy on them.

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The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras in Streetlights

Nov

2018

Surveillance

The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras in Streetlights

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights around the country, federal contracting documents reveal.

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Every Minute for Three Months, GM Secretly Gathered Data on 90,000 Drivers' Radio-Listening Habits and Locations

Oct

2018

Big Brother

Every Minute for Three Months, GM Secretly Gathered Data on 90,000 Drivers' Radio-Listening Habits and Locations

He described how the company had secretly gathered data on the radio-listening habits of 90,000 GM owners in LA and Chicago for three months in 2017, tracking what stations they listened to and for how long, and where they were at the time; this data was covertly exfiltrated from the cars by means of their built-in wifi.

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