World News US weighs more intel sharing with Saudi Arabia after attack-sourcesjpost.com - REUTERS WASHINGTON - The United States is considering increasing its intelligence sharing with Saudi Arabia after Saturday's attack on Saudi oil facilities …
FBI Russia Executed ‘Stunning’ Hack of Encrypted FBI Communications, Tapped In From Compounds Obama Shut: ReportThe Daily Beast - Jamie Ross Russia carried out a “stunning” hack of U.S. intelligence services’ most sensitive communications, Yahoo News reports. The hack is believed to have …
News (China) Facial recognition technology in China beaten by a nose jobSouth China Morning Post - Mandy Zuo A young woman in eastern China found her life turned upside down when plastic surgery altered her appearance so drastically she was banned from …
Facebook Get popcorn for iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of creepy Facebook data grabsTechCrunch - Natasha LomasPrivacy-minded changes to smartphone operating systems which foreground the background activity of third party apps are helping to spotlight more of the surveillance infrastructure deployed by adtech to
Technology US government demands data on thousands of gun scope app usersZDNet - Charlie Osborne Over 10,000 users may be caught in the crossfire of ICE’s request. Federal investigators have demanded information belonging to at least 10,000 users …
Mobile Technology New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous againWired UK - Elise Thomas The fight over the future of facial recognition is heating up. But it is just the beginning, as even more intrusive methods of surveillance are being …
United Kingdom HMRC faces legal fight for handing Britons' data to US tax officialsThe Guardian - Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondentHMRC is facing a legal battle to block it from handing personal details about British citizens to US tax authorities. The case could have wide-ranging implications for tens of thousands of so-called accidental
News (China) Artificial intelligence is watching China’s students but how well can it really see?South China Morning Post - Echo Xie Almost every second of Betty Li’s school life is monitored.The 22-year-old student at a university in northwestern China must get through face …
Facebook Facebook and Silicon Valley Are Colluding to Profit From Your Personal DataVICETuesday, the New York Times published another bombshell report detailing the ways in which Facebook gave many of Silicon Valley’s giants privileged access to user profiles and data, often without alerting
Monsanto Monsanto's SpiesHuffPost - Paul D. ThackerThe agri-chemical giant has a storied history of using shady tactics to attack critics and influence the media. It was early March when other reporters first noticed Sylvie Barak. About a half a dozen
Technology Israeli police arrest execs from vendor of mobile surveillance techZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Ability execs arrests over the weekend after raids on the company's offices. Israeli police have raided the offices of a company that sells mobile …
Australian Federal Police Dutton’s citizenship-stripping laws may increase risk of terrorism, Asio warns Australia News - Paul KarpPeter Dutton’s citizenship-stripping laws may have thwarted police from pressing criminal charges and increased the risk of terrorism, Australia’s spy agency has warned. The Australian Security and Intelligence
China Exclusive: Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties – sourcesReuters - Colin PackhamSYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian intelligence determined China was responsible for a cyber-attack on its national parliament and three largest political parties before the general election in May, five people
U.S. Politics California lawmaker trying to weaken privacy law is married to Ring executivePOLITICO - By KATY MURPHYSACRAMENTO — A California lawmaker behind an industry-backed bill to narrow the state's landmark Privacy Act is married to a top executive at Ring, the Amazon-owned tech company in the thick of a national
Financial ServicesThe Next Generation of Data-Sharing in Financial Services: Using Privacy Enhancing Techniques to Unlock New Value | Worldweforum.org This report explores an emerging set of technologies known as "privacy enhancing techniques" (PETs), and their ability to unlock new value in the …
Technology Microsoft president: Data privacy is one of the 'fundamental freedoms of our time'FOX Business - Julia LimitoneData privacy is one of the “fundamental freedoms of our time,” said Microsoft President Brad Smith on Friday while discussing concerns related to cloud computing and other technological advances affecting
Law The DMV Is Selling Your Data To Vast Array Of Third Partiesabovethelaw.com - By Techdirt The government has all your data, so of course they're trying to profit off of it. Another day, another data privacy scandal. This time the focus is …
Facial Recognition Is Australia turning into a Black Mirror episode?9news.com.au - 9News A lot of us have seen the show Black Mirror on Netflix. It's a cracker. Each standalone episode tells a different story about how society's …
Edward Snowden 'They wanted me gone': Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in RussiaGuardian US - Ewen MacAskill in MoscowEdward Snowden,US news,World news,Russia,Europe,Surveillance,The NSA files,NSA,GCHQ,UK security and counter-terrorism,UK news The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively
Technology WhatsApp ‘Exploited’ By Hong Kong Police To Collect Intelligence—Accounts SuspendedForbes - Zak DoffmanIn another blunt message to China, Facebook has slapped down attempts by the police in Hong Kong to use its WhatsApp messaging platform to collect intelligence on the pro-democracy protests. The plan been
War New Cyber Warning: ISIS Or Al-Qaeda Could Attack Using ‘Dirty Bomb’Forbes - Zak DoffmanThe most serious cyber warfare threats facing the West come from China and Russia, that much is undebatable, with Iran and North Korea a step or two behind. Those CRINK nation states occupy most of the
SIM Cards Simjacker flaw allows attacker to track your location via secret text message9to5Mac - Ben LovejoyIt’s long been speculated that it would be possible to take over a smartphone via a so-called simjacker exploit, which gains remote control of the SIM card. Security researchers have now discovered that
India News Lost your mobile phone? Govt will help you to find it through this new portallivemint.com - Navadha Pandey Lost your mobile phone? No worries. The government is coming to your rescue. The department of telecommunications, since 2017, has been working on the …
Smart Homes Google collects face data now. Here's what it means and how to opt outCNET - by Dale Smith The new Face Match technology isn't everywhere yet, but it's always looking. Find out what's happening with your face data and what you can do to stop it.
Biometrics Biometric bill is ‘manifest danger’innovationaus.com The federal government needs to abandon its “sloppy and dangerous” facial recognition scheme that would impact the freedoms of all Australians, …
Cybersecurity Israel Allegedly Installed Stingray Devices Around D.C. to Spy on President TrumpGizmodo - Matt Novak Israel was allegedly behind the Stingray spy devices discovered around Washington, D.C. in 2017, according to an explosive new report from Politico, …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCannabis Drugside road tests for cannabis can return false-negative results, study findsabc.net.au Professor Iain McGregor, Academic Director of the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics, University of Sydney Dr Alex Wodak, president, …
Surveillance This Interactive Map Tracks Our Growing Surveillance StateVICEA new joint study by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the University of Nevada is attempting to create a transparent inventory of the United States’ growing surveillance apparatus. The project
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoConsumer ProtectionConsumer Protection: should every house be tested for methamphetamine contamination before it's sold or rented? - Drive ABCabc.net.au We often hear of police raiding a house that's been used to make drugs such as methamphetamine. The drugs can penetrate the soil, the flooring and the …
