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DroneTracker Will Warn You About Sneaky Drones
When it comes to technology, people are always about the latest craze. From touchscreens to internet connected devices, people often swarm and buy the latest thing, causing advances in the technology that governments and organisations often can’t deal with. The problem with drones is it’s quite hard to keep track…
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The FBI Wants to Identify People Based on Their Tattoos
We’ve all seen it in the movies and on TV, with facial recognition software identifying a single person amongst crowds of millions all across a city. It would seem that we are not alone when we watch those films as the FBI now wants to take the software one step…
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If An App Can Know Your Location – So Can The Police
One of the most unprecedented pieces of technology that we use these days is the GPS hardware found within your mobile phones. Being able to track and find information based on your location means that finding the nearest shop, cinema or toilets are just a button press away. With so…
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New EU And US Data Sharing Policy May Not Be Enough
With thousands of accounts and messages used every hour, with messages going between countries within seconds. With systems like PRISM from the US tracking, profiling and gathering information from accounts worldwide the EU decided that they needed to re-clarify the agreement they had regarding data sharing and for a year now…
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Messaging Apps Must Store Data Within Iran’s Borders
With more and more governments requesting access to your private data, the lines between countries are becoming more defined in the digital world. With the revelation of schemes like PRISM offending Europe to a point where they began renegotiating a deal with the US to protect data regarding European citizens, more and…
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Stingrays Used to Block Calls in the UK
When it comes to the Stingray, the US has been up in arms over the devices that not only intercept your mobile phone’s calls and messages but can be used to record your very intimate and private messages. The reason for intercepting your technological secrets is normally classed as security,…
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Fitbit Could be Getting Your Heart Rate Wrong
In this day and age, wearable technology can do amazing things. With people being able to check their emails and text messages with a simple flick of their wrist while some technology even gives us a chance to monitor our heartbeat and track your location. One of the most famous…
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Police Won’t Say Why An Unmarked Car Had Google Maps Stickers On It
Police use license plate readers all over the world, with it a common technique to scan and alert the police to anything from uninsured drivers to stolen vehicles. A downside to this technique is that the technology can be found in any vehicle used by the police, including those which are…
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Canada And The UK Force Moments To Rethink Auto-Tagging Of Photos
Who doesn’t love a good photo? Capturing those precious moments for years to come and sometimes you just want to share them with your friends. In this day and age, tagging people is common, from your status to your favourite cartoon meme your friends are linked to your account in so…
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Cops Use StingRay Phone Tracker Against $50 Chicken Wing Thief
Police officers in Maryland, US, used a controversial mobile (cell)phone-tracking system – billed as a tool for fighting terrorism – to track a man suspected of stealing $50-worth of chicken wings. The Annapolis police department used a StingRay to determine the location of a man suspected of the theft of…
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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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Drones and Remote Cameras Look to Protect Rhinos From Poaching
Technology can be used for some interesting and amazing purposes, from getting a car to drive itself to saving people’s eyesight, technology is often used to help people. Now networking giant Cisco is teaming up with technology firm Dimension Data to protect rhinos in South Africa. The new partnership will see technology…
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Warrant Used To Track Users Through Tor Invalidated
When it was revealed that an NIT (network investigative technique) had been used to track people across Tor, people were worried about just how they had got permission to deploy such a far sweeping piece of computer malware. It would now seem that the warrant issued didn’t give as much…
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Congressman Wants Longstanding Mobile Security Flaw Investigated
When it comes to our technology, we like to think there might be a hint of privacy in their use. Signaling System 7 is a set of protocols used to help route data, messages, and even phone calls through mobile networks but the problem is that such a widely used…
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Fitbit Used to Save Someone’s Life
People these days like using technology for a wide range of abilities, from playing a game to tracking your morning run. Using technology to track your activities has become a big thing, with smart watches and sports wristbands alike offering the ability to track and monitor your actions, a feature…
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