Post Tagged with: "Surveillance"
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Uber’s top lawyer to staff: ‘If you’re still spying on people, quit it’
Lawsuit revealed that Uber had secretly recorded executives from its competitors as part of ‘unauthorized surveillance.’
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Early stage: This surveillance startup wants to put cameras in your neighborhood
Flock, a startup backed by Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator, outfits neighborhoods with license-plate-reading cameras that it says can help police catch criminals.
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Apple: Latest alleged CIA hacks of iPhones and Macs are old, fixed
Documents released by WikiLeaks claimed the CIA had the ability to keep spying on iPhones even after the devices were restored to factory settings.
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Creator of the internet Tim Berners-Lee says past year has him worried about the web
Father of the internet Tim Berners-Lee says the past year had made him worry about the web on three fronts: privacy, fake news and political advertising.
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Facebook says its data shouldn’t be used for surveillance
The world’s largest social network updated its developer policies Monday to make it clear that its data should not be used for spying on people.
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U.S. gains expanded hacking powers thanks to rule changes
The changes give judges power to authorize warrants beyond their jurisdictions and makes it easier for the FBI to get permission to remotely hack into computers both in the U.S. and overseas during a criminal investigation.
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Tech industry sends Donald Trump a wish list
The tech industry — which once said a Donald Trump presidency “would be a disaster for innovation” and donated and raised money to try to defeat him — is now asking […]
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Surveillance, encryption concerns in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory
Will U.S. government surveillance expand once Donald Trump becomes president? At least a couple of tech companies are reportedly worried enough about it that they’re considering moving their servers out […]
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Lawmakers want answers about Yahoo scanning emails for U.S. government
What’s up with Yahoo reportedly helping the government by scanning its users’ incoming emails? Like the rest of us, lawmakers want to know. So a bipartisan group of 48 representatives […]
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram data helped cops track activists, protesters: ACLU report
From live videos to hashtags, social media has played a big role in race-related protests over police shootings in the United States. It turns out Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have […]
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