All posts tagged "surveillance"
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175FutureBreaking: Montana Is the First US State to Totally Ban TikTok
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte made history on May 17, signing legislation to ban Tiktok from his home state of Montana – the...
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2.9KFutureNew Report: Scientists Can Now Use WiFi to ‘See’ People Through Walls
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University managed a breakthrough that will make privacy-conscious people turn their homes into a Better Call Saul-style Faraday...
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5.8KSecurityTikTok Admits Their Employees Used the App to Track Journalists Reporting On Their Ties to China
This is a story you don’t read everyday but one you should remember at all times: a social media company admits that...
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2.8KSecurityWatch Live: Edward Snowden Launches Global Encryption Day
Privacy experts, civil society organizations and tech companies are launching Global Encryption Day and using Edward Snowden, the world’s most famous whistleblower,...
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5.0KSecurityThe Amazon Astro Robot Watches Everything You Do, Uses Facial Recognition Too
Creepy or hilarious? The recently unveiled Amazon Astro Robot is apparently designed to watch everything you do, using facial recognition on your...
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7.2KSecurityIsrael Passes Law to Track the Phones Of COVID-19 Infected People
As the world is going through an unprecedented lockdown, more and more extreme measures are being adopted in order to stop the...
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7.3KSecurityHacker Creates Clothes That Feed Fake Data To License Plate Reader Systems
We’re heading into a future where we’re facing computer vision algorithms pretty much everywhere in our lives and our cars have already...
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2.2KSecurityAmazon Is Allegedly Telling Police How To Get Video Recordings Without A Warrant
Ring, the company that makes intelligent bells owned by Amazon is allegedly teaching the police how to get the security footage recorded...
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1.6KSecurityCambridge, Massachusetts Also Plans To Ban Facial Recognition Technology
As the concerns over facial recognition technology and privacy grow, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts is also taking steps towards prohibiting its...
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2.4KSmart LifeFujifilm Surveillance Camera Is Capable Of 40x Optical Zoom
Fujifilm has now officially entered the surveillance camera market with its Fujifilm SX800, a long-range camera that comes with a built-in lens. ...
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2.7KSecurityNew Chinese Surveillance Tool Identifies People by Their Walk
China has no less than 170 million CCTV cameras in use across the country, with an additional 400 million planned for the...
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2.7KSecurityAI Can Identify People in Surveillance Footage by Height, Clothing Color and Gender
Scientists in India used deep learning techniques and Microsoft’s COCO dataset to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to search for a...
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3.5KSecurityOne Company Says Yes To Microchip Implants And So Do The Employees
Earlier in August, the employees at Three Square Market, a technology company in Wisconsin, made the decision that they are perfectly alright...
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5.9KSecurityWalmart Patents Audio Tech to Monitor Employees
Workplace surveillance technology is already a sensitive issue and Walmart might just have added fuel to the fire. The company patented a...
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5.1KMiscSurveillance Drones Disguised as Birds Used in China
[adrotate group=”9″] China seems to be taking the lead when it comes to surveillance, as drones disguised as birds are keeping tabs...
