All smartphones are data collection machines; hopefully everyone understands that. There are an amazing number of sensors on the device and many apps just ask for everything. If the user grants that, then the app can harvest all that data and likely sell it, either individually or in the aggregate. Researchers took a tiny sample […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let me first say that there is nothing illegal about what follows. You may not like it, but it is not illegal. Using a public records request, Motherboard obtained a user manual for the Palantir surveillance system called Gotham. The system is used by law enforcement around country (including, for example, New York, New Orleans, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stories – and only stories – abound about whether the Ruskies have infiltrated the US power grid – years ago. The government is not going to tell the truth for fear of scaring the crap out of people. On March 5th a “cyber event” interrupted the power grid in parts of the western United States. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon is selling facial recognition technology that it has developed – called Rekognition – to law enforcement agencies and maybe others – Amazon won’t say. While there is nothing illegal about this and if Amazon doesn’t do it, others likely would, it certainly raises privacy concerns. Two police departments that are known to have purchased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NBC is reporting that the Intelligence Community developed substantial evidence that Russian financed attackers compromised the voter registration systems or web sites of seven states to different degrees. Up until this time DHS has been completely mum about this, saying absolutely nothing. But now NBC is reporting that the seven states are Alaska, Arizona, California, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The heads of the intelligence community – NSA, CIA, FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, appearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Chinese smartphones posed a threat to national security. Exactly why they singled out those two Chinese phones, compared to the iPhone, which is likely made in the same factory, is […]
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