Rethinking predictive policing: Towards a holistic framework of democratic algorithmic surveillance. Big Brother Watch Begins Landmark Legal Challenge to Police Use of Facial Rec... China's Mass Surveillance App Hacked; Code Reveals Specific Criteria For Ille... Lawyer’s Phone, Laptop Confiscated Because He Didn’t Share Passwords With Can... A lawyer had his phone and laptop seized by Canada border officials after he refused to give up the passwords to the devices.
Police Can Download All Your Smartphone's Data Without A Warrant. Police officers can download the contents of your mobile phone without a warrant – even if you have not been charged with any crime.
A new report by Privacy International shows that since 2012, police forces across the UK have been downloading data from the smartphones of suspects, victims and witnesses, often without obtaining permission. What’s more, they may be storing this data indefinitely, even when no charges are brought. Go On, Tell Me The Numbers… Image Credit: Bruce Mars / Pexels. Give up your password or go to jail: Police push legal boundaries to get into... William Montanez is used to getting stopped by the police in Tampa, Florida, for small-time traffic and marijuana violations; it’s happened more than a dozen times.
When they pulled him over last June, he didn’t try to hide his pot, telling officers, "Yeah, I smoke it, there's a joint in the center console, you gonna arrest me for that? " They did arrest him, not only for the marijuana but also for two small bottles they believed contained THC oil — a felony — and for having a firearm while committing that felony (they found a handgun in the glove box). Then things got testy. As they confiscated his two iPhones, a text message popped up on the locked screen of one of them: “OMG, did they find it?” The officers demanded his passcodes, warning him they’d get warrants to search the cellphones. - The Washington Post. Upping the Ante on Bulk Surveillance: An International Compendium of Good Legal Safeguards and Oversight Innovations. Unprecedented public debates about intelligence governance following the revelations of Edward Snowden have not changed the fact that all major democracies allow their national intelligence services to intercept communications data in enormous quantities.
Many people question the efficiency of bulk surveillance practices and their compatibility with fundamental rights. Others worry about its effect on the social fabric of democratic societies. Yet, the fact is that most parliaments have expanded, rather than curtailed, surveillance powers in recent intelligence reforms. What is more, the European Court of Human Rights recently upheld the Swedish regime for bulk interception of foreign communications and called the practice a «valuable means» of counterterrorism in its Big Brother Watch decision of September 2018.
Therefore, one can assume that the practice of bulk communications surveillance is here to stay.
Mass surveillance challenge proceeds to Europe’s highest human rights court. CPDP2019 Opening night: Shoshana Zuboff’s Book Launch. UK police use of computer programs to predict crime sparks discrimination warning. The rapid growth in the use of computer programs to predict crime hotspots and people who are likely to reoffend risks locking discrimination into the criminal justice system, a report has warned.
Professor Says Police Bodycam Study Suffers from ‘Fatal Flaw’ - Law Blog. Meet Babel Street, the Powerful Social Media Surveillance Used by Police, Secret Service, and Sports Stadiums - Motherboard. After Geofeedia's highly publicized PR disaster, in which Chicago Police were found to have used the social media surveillance platform to track racial justice protests and gatherings, the social media monitoring company saw Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram cut off its data streams.
Arguably the three most valuable API streams for social media sites, it would make sense for law enforcement to try and find an alternative software. A company called Babel Street, hailing from Reston, Virginia, might just be the answer. Newly released records from the Seattle Police Department indicate that in March of 2016, the agency acquired a two month trial run of Babel Street's Babel X software and Open Source Intelligence training. The purchase ran the department $6,500. The price of a one year Babel X subscription is $18,500, per a quote for the Army National Guard, which for some reason wound up in this SPD release.
US access to ISPs data. WikiLeaks CIA access to devices. Police webcam. State surveillance privacy Freedom of expression. Omniveillance. NSA and GCHQ unlock privacy and security on the internet. NSA Surveillance and PRISM. Transit Bureau Officers Bust Notorious Graffiti Vandal. FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application. FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a better way to spy on Facebook and Twitter users.
Police told to delete on request millions of images of innocent people. The home secretary has ordered police forces to delete on request millions of images of innocent people unlawfully retained on a searchable national police database.
A Home Office review published on Friday found that police forces make extensive use of more than 19m pictures and videos, known as custody images, of people they have arrested or questioned on the police national database. Despite a high court ruling in 2012 that keeping images of innocent people was unlawful, police forces have quietly continued to build up a massive database without any of the controls or privacy safeguards that apply to police DNA and fingerprint databases. TSA to remove controversial X-ray scanners due to privacy concerns. 12 min ago | ChinaTechNews.com Alibaba Throws Money At Internet Privacy Hu Xiaoming, Alibaba's vice president for small- and micro-financial group and chief risk officer, announced in Beijing that the company will invest CNY40 million to establish a security fund.
A Senator Will Introduce Legislation Requiring Warrants Before Phones Can Be Searched At The US Border - BuzzFeed News. Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives. Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia police sergeant, has been in the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for more than 16 months.
His crime: the fired police officer has been found in contempt of court for refusing a judge's order to unlock two hard drives the authorities believe contain child pornography. Theoretically, Rawls can remain jailed indefinitely until he complies. The federal court system appears to be in no hurry to resolve an unresolved legal issue: does the Fifth Amendment protect the public from being forced to decrypt their digital belongings?
I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you. A few months ago I wrote about how you can encrypt your entire life in less than an hour. Well, all the security in the world can’t save you if someone has physical possession of your phone or laptop, and can intimidate you into giving up your password. And a few weeks ago, that’s precisely what happened to a US citizen returning home from abroad. On January 30th, Sidd Bikkannavar, a US-born scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew back to Houston, Texas from Santiago, Chile. Un tour du monde des stations d'écoute. Dans « Le Monde diplomatique » de septembre, le journaliste néo-zélandais Nicky Hager dévoile l’existence, à Ourim, dans le sud d’Israël, d’une des plus grandes stations d’écoute de la planète.
Interceptant les communications téléphoniques et les échanges de données qui transitent par satellite au-dessus de la région, ainsi que sur certains câbles sous-marins en Méditerranée, cette station est pilotée par l’Unité 8200, une structure de renseignement peu connue, bien que dotée de moyens très importants. La base d’Ourim Voici une photographie de la base d’Ourim, telle qu’elle apparaît sur les images satellites [1]. L’œil averti y distingue les éléments caractéristiques d’une station d’écoute, que l’on retrouvera plus bas sur les images des autres sites connus. Under cover FBI agents on SM. Body scanner. Laptop search. Senate hearing mobile privacy. China to track cellphone users. State Police can suck data. Israel eardroping AlphaTelecom. O2 share your phone number? Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum. Feds Patriot Ac location data.
Under cover FBI agents on SM. Police webcam. Website to identify protestors from pictures. New Passenger Name Record Directive, UK spy agencies 'broke privacy rules' says tribunal. Image copyright Thinkstock. CIA: We'll spy on you through your refrigerator. UK government conducted illegal bulk data collection for almost a decade. The UK government conducted illegal bulk data collection and storage on citizens for almost 10 years, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled. The case was brought by Privacy International and heard in the summer. More Fun with the Airline Screening Playset: Body Imaging X-Ray Edition! Met Police request for Oyster data scrutiny 'rises'
TSA Investigating ‘Don’t Touch My Junk’ Passenger. You May Have 'Nothing to Hide' But You Still Have Something to Fear. Internal audit shows NSA often breaks privacy rules, made thousands of violations a year. The Washington Post today published several big scoops related to the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. The paper's investigations were triggered by documents leaked to them "earlier this summer" by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Hundreds of Pages of NSA Spying Documents to be Released As Result of EFF Lawsuit.