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DEA and ICE hiding cameras in streetlights and traffic barrels

Drug and immigration cops in the US are buying surveillance cameras to hide in streetlights and traffic barrels.

Think fast! You’ll only have up to 10 minutes to hit unsend: a lot stingier than the hour afforded by WhatsApp.

Researchers have found that a smartphone and some smart number crunching can track people moving in their homes as they reflect radio waves.

Facebook’s had a patent approved for a new way to sniff out potential friends, based on your phone and patterns of movement.

Two US biometric companies have partnered to research a private, nationwide biometrics system.

A proposed bill calls for executives to be jailed for not protecting consumers’ data, or at least for lying about it.

Researchers have developed an exploit that uses a feature in Intel chips to steal secret cryptographic keys.

Only one browser stood fast against a set of new browser history attacks.

The government isn’t really after the password, after all; it’s after any potential evidence it protects. In other words: fishing expedition.

Researchers claim that unusual BGP routing changes are actually man-in-the-middle surveillance.