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Facebook Forbids the Use of User Data for Surveillance
Last October, an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that a company called Geofeedia had analysed data provided by Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to supply the police in Ferguson with surveillance information. That created a lot of uproars and only Twitter overhauled its policies to try and stop…
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UK Snoopers Charter Legal Challenge Successfully Crowdfunded
Mere hours after being launched, a crowdfunding campaign to fund legal action against the UK Government over its newly introduced Investigatory Powers Act – derisively known as the Snoopers Charter for its sweeping scope to spy on every UK citizen without a warrant – has hit its £10,000 target. The…
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UK Surveillance Law Requires Encryption Backdoors
As if the new Investigatory Powers Act – nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter for its egregious mass surveillance of every UK resident – wasn’t scary enough, it has now emerged that the law requires ISPs, telecom providers, and other communications services to build backdoors into any new encryption services. The latest…
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WWW Inventor Attacks New Undemocratic UK Surveillance Law
The Investigatory Powers Bill, nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter, which requires UK ISPs to record the internet history of every user within the country for twelve months, and grants police, intelligence, and government departments access to that information, as given Royal Assent today, meaning it has officially become law. The law…
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UK Passes “Terrifying” Internet Surveillance Law
The Investigatory Powers Bill – colloquially known as the Snooper’s Charter due to its draconian approach to mass surveillance – has been passed by the House of Lords after four years of consultations and redrafting. First proposed by Prime Minister Theresa May, then Home secretary, in 2012, the bill forces…
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Government
In a staggering revelation today, a new report has surfaced regarding the struggling tech firm Yahoo. According to the revelations by former employees, in 2015, the company built a custom software program to scan all of their user emails. More critically, the move was done at the behest of a classified…
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Seagate SkyHawk 10TB NVR and DVR HDD Review
Introduction I’ve recently had a look at the 10TB IronWolf NAS HDD from Seagate and today it is time to take a closer look at its brother, the brand new SkyHawk DVR and NVR hard disk drive with a massive 10TB capacity. Sure, you could use NAS optimized drives for…
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Seagate Unveils 10TB Consumer Drives
Seagate has unveiled their new 10TB drives for consumers, storage, and surveillance alike and they now feature the largest available 10TB drive portfolio. At the same time, Seagate also fully introduces the new brand names and imagery here the entire lineup is categorized as the Guardian Series. It includes the new the 10TB…
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Your Stash Won’t Be Safe From this Drug Sniffing Car!
In Texas, a chemistry professor has made an unusual aftermarket modification to his electric Ford sedan, a drug sniffer. The device is capable of detecting trace amounts of illegal substances present in the air and then track them to the source with a surprising level of accuracy. Dr. Guido Verbeck…
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Paris Police Want Hexacopter Drones For Crowd Surveillance
When it comes to technology, people are often suspicious when the technology is used to monitor them. Only recently it was revealed that the Stingrays, a set of devices that would pretend to be mobile towers and record messages and calls made through them, were being used by authorities but…
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Egypt Blocks Facebook’s Internet Service After Being Denied The Ability To Spy On Users
Facebook have been keen on allowing countries access to Free Basics, their low-cost internet system designed at giving people the ability to create a Facebook account and access a limited number of sites at no cost. Free internet sounds great doesn’t it? Some countries don’t believe so, with India already banning…
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SpotCam Announces HD Eva Wi-Fi Camera with Free Cloud Recording
Monitoring your home while you are away can be both tricky to setup and manage as well as get quite expensive depending on your needs, but there are simple solutions too. One of those simple solutions is the newly introduced SpotCam HD Eva which is a complete and user-friendly IP…
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Sea Drone to Patrol World’s Largest Marine Reserve
There is no doubt that policing 834,000 square kilometers of sea is no easy task. It could be about to get a lot harder for illegal fishermen to slip through undetected thanks to a new two-part ocean-going drone that will patrol the around the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific that are designated…
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Russia Request Permission to Fly Spy Plane Over the US
Today Russia requested permission to allow an advanced surveillance plane with advanced electro-optical imaging sensors to fly over the US. The request is valid as both Russia and the US are signatories of the Open Skies Treaty, which permits unarmed observational flights over any of the 34 member nations, despite…
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Camera Attached To A Utility Poll Used To Spy On Suspects
While they work to enforce the law, recently they have come into conflicts with it when technology was used in new ways. From the use of mobile interception technologies, like the Stingray, to the watching people’s online activity. In a recent court appeal, a new tactic was revealed, a Webcam attached to…
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