Airbnb guests have long shared concerns about hidden cameras in rental homes. While camerasinside homes are strictly prohibited under Airbnb’s rules, suspicions about undisclosed surveillance continue to surface…
Read more Woman checks into Airbnb at Corpus Christi. Then she notices something off about the mirror: ‘There’s probably someone on the other side’Flock cameras have become such attractive targets for destruction that some police have become protective of information about where they’re mounted. A local news story Friday in Louisville,…
Read more Flock Cameras Have a People-Love-Smashing-Them ProblemLast year, the phone hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as customers, after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its…
Read more Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others? | TechCrunchAmazon’s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after a 30-second Ring ad…
Read more Amazon’s Ring decides maybe partnering with a police surveillance firm is a bad idea after wide revulsion at Super Bowl ad | FortuneGuthrie lives on nearly an acre, in a brown-brick, ranch-style house with an attached garage, a short gravel driveway, and desert landscaping. She has been there since the…
Read more The Disappearance of Nancy GuthrieRing has been getting plenty of critical press lately, with concerns over local police and federal law enforcement potentially gaining access to sensitive surveillance camera footage across the…
Read more Amazon’s Ring Wants to Wash Away Your Surveillance Concerns With Lost PuppiesPresident Donald Trump said he would make countering immigration one of his flagship policies during his second term in The White House, promising an unprecedented number of deportations. …
Read more Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown | TechCrunchRev. Martin Luther King Jr. relaxes at home in May 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Howard Manly, The Conversation Left out of GOP debates about…
Read more ‘The Most Dangerous Negro’: 3 Essential Reads on the FBI’s Assessment of MLK’s Radical Views and AlliesIt was a normal day when Jay Gibson got an unexpected notification on his iPhone. “Apple detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone,” the message read.…
Read more You’ve been targeted by government spyware. Now what? | TechCrunchA 20-year-old was taken to the hospital after an Orange County deputy returned fire while serving a search.The sheriff’s office says deputies from the felony unit were stationed…
Read more 20-year-old shot by deputies after opening fire during “homicide” investigationTrucks and motels line Roosevelt Avenue in National City. Image from Google Earth When a hit and run driver hit the National City Police Department’s mobile SkyWatch tower…
Read more National City said a surveillance tower was stopping prostitution — but now it’s broken with no fix in sightIt’s this creeping surveillance that gives some students pause, even those who told The 74 they otherwise support vape detectors in bathrooms. The possibility of unknown capabilities with…
Read more Vaping Is ‘Everywhere’ in Schools—Sparking a Bathroom Surveillance BoomAlex Karp, the CEO of defense contractor Palantir, has been on the offensive lately. The billionaire with a penchant for making off-the-cuff remarks has sought to tamp down…
Read more Palantir’s CEO Disavows Surveillance Concerns, Thinks ‘Patriotism Will Make You Rich’Palantir CEO Alex Karp is sick and tired of his critics. That much is clear. But during the Yahoo Finance Invest Conference Thursday, he escalated his counteroffensive, aimed…
Read more Palantir CEO slams ‘parasitic’ critics calling the tech a surveillance tool: ‘Not only is patriotism right, patriotism will make you rich’ | FortuneOn November 21, 2023, field intelligence officers within the Department of Homeland Security quietly deleted a trove of Chicago Police Department records. It was not a routine purge.…
Read more DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage RulesWearable tech continues to be one of the Next Big Things in technology innovation, thanks to what many experts expect to be the replacement for the humble smartphone—AR…
Read more How Wearable Tech Could Become ‘Big Brother’ in the WorkplaceThe recent spike in searches at the border has mostly been driven by an increase in the past six months. Between April and June, CBP searched 14,899 devices—which…
Read more CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past YearThe US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single…
Read more DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance TrucksZion Church moved many of its services online. Beijing still arrested its pastor. Mindy Belz Source link
Read more Opinion | Xi Is Watching as Chinese Christians PraySEATTLE, Wash. — A new study by The University of Washington Center for Human Rights appears to show how Flock Security Cameras have in some cases been used…
Read more UW Study Looks to Question How Flock Security Camera Information Being Shared – KXL