Federal law enforcement agencies will now require a warrant before they can deploy stingrays and other similar devices. Any data collected will also have to be deleted post haste.
Tag Archives: surveillance
Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden
In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.
Stingrays used to track petty crime
Baltimore revealed that it’s used stingrays 4300 times, and now we know most of that is on the level of check forgery and phone theft.
Pirate sites ban Windows 10 over privacy worries
Paranoia has spiked over the notion that Microsoft plans to keep people from running software they never bought.
Jeb Bush: encryption makes it too hard to catch “evildoers”
Republican US presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that encryption makes it harder for the NSA to do its job, and advocated for broad NSA surveillance powers to catch “evildoers.”
The latest accessory to flummox facial recognition cameras – the Privacy Visor!
Wear it with the melting-face T-shirt and the hoodie that kicks away light, and you’ll be the belle of the privacy ball!
The NSA is funding a ‘safer’ Internet of Things
A university project aims to build a lightweight virtualization architecture that can be used to bake cybersecurity into connected systems from the design phase.
Stingray-like phone spying machine used to blackmail and rig state tenders
A South African official is suspected of forging a document to allow a businessman to illegally/allegedly buy the pricey device.
Websites can track us by the way we type – here’s how to stop it
Researchers have come up with a new Chrome extension that muffles our key-press duration and typing lags.
NSA sets date for purge of surveillance phone records
Phone companies take over the records on 29 November, but NSA’s tech staff will have another three months “solely” to ensure data integrity.