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First confirmed case of PRISM surveilance was against a democracy rights activist in New Zealand
PRISM is/was an NSA intelligence-gathering program. It has been widely speculated that friendly governments spy on other countries so that said country doesn't violate laws about spying on their own people. And this happened in NZ. The activist was from Fiji, and was very active in trying to get democracy for Fiji and get rid of the prime ( Read more... ) -
An Australian news reporter released his cell phone metadata to the public
It was only his outbound calls and texts, still, the public was able to piece together a remarkably accurate profile of his life. They figured out where his parents live, when he left the country for foreign travel, when the drawbridge went up on his route to work, and when he moved to a new house to be closer to work. They produced heat maps of ( Read more... ) -
Great. First Stingrays, now we also have Jugulars and Wolfhounds.
Stingrays are $100,000 devices that simulate cell phone towers and are used by law enforcement to capture a suspect's cell phone traffic. The problem is, it also captures EVERYONE ELSE'S TRAFFIC. There has been tremendous controversy about 4th Amendment rights because it's such a blanket capture of traffic. Many criminal cases have been dropped ( Read more... ) -
The head of Scotland Yard wants everyone in the UK to install surveillance cameras at eye height
Every home. Every business. At eye height. "To help solve crime." I can understand that lots of surveillance footage might be of the top of people's heads, but this is ridiculous.
Does anyone know if it's illegal to wear a baseball cap in the UK filled with IR LEDs? surveillance, big brotherUp in the air, Junior Stingrays!
I've written about Stingrays before, they're surveillance devices that force all of the cell phones in an area to connect with them, thus conducting yet another form of mass surveillance. And usually they're deployed without warrants ( Read more... )Algorithm can reconstruct speech from a pack of chips through soundproof glass
Very interesting tech. The ability to recover sound by bouncing a laser off of glass has been around for ages, this is different as it just uses a camera and would therefor be difficult to detect. You find a boundary, for example, between a blue and red object. Blue and red combine to make purple, and by watching how it shifts around purple you ( Read more... )The Florida stingray case? Just got worse for the police.
Emails have been discovered telling officers how to avoid telling judges about the devices.
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-told-cops-to-deceive-courts-about-stingray/Stealing passcodes with Google Glass or other cameras
The concept is that you can algorithmically figure out what the person entered as a passcode with high accuracy for numeric codes and impressive accuracy for alphanumeric passcodes. The question is exactly how much of a threat does this thing represent, since you need a fairly clear view of the device that's being used. surveillanceUS Marshals seize records from a Florida police dept that the ACLU had FOIA'd
The ACLU filed a public records request for all information about using stingray devices from the Sarasota PD and had an appointment to review the documentation, when the US Marshal Service went in and effectively raided the police department, taking all of the documents that the ACLU were going to view ( Read more... )"We kill people based on metadata"
Thus spoke General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA. Metadata is information about information, in this case, collecting metadata about phone calls. It knows A called B on a certain date and time and for a certain amount of time. It then can go out 2-3 hops, A<->B is one, B then calls C is 2, C calls D E and F for three. ( Read more... )