The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for up to a decade if they refuse to unlock their phones.
Daily Archives: August 16, 2018
Sacramento admits to tracking welfare recipients’ license plates
For 2 years, welfare investigators used a huge database of automated license plate reader images to sniff out fraud, without audit or policy.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison
The family of “Dread Pirate Roberts” got him an account and is typing in, word for word, his tweets, including his hope for Trump’s clemency.
Bogus journals being used to publish fake science
What’s worse than fake news? Fake science – published in legitimate looking journals.