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Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power

Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power

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A member of our research team discovered that the app was compiled with an older version of Android, which does not include some of the latest privacy improvements, and uses software provided by a company called Phunware, well known for collecting people’s location information and relations with the Trump campaign, a role highlighted by a […]

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NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance technologies

NYC passes POST Act, requiring police department to reveal surveillance technologies

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The New York City Council today voted in favor of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, a bill that requires the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to disclose their use of surveillance technologies. The POST Act also mandates that the NYPD develop policies on how it deploys those tools, as well as

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Amazon Won't Let Police Use Its Facial Recognition Tech for One Year

Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial Recognition Tech for One Year

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Amazon announced on Wednesday it was implementing a “one-year moratorium” on police use of Rekognition, its facial recognition technology. Lawmakers and civil liberties groups have expressed growing alarm over the tool’s potential for misuse by law enforcement for years, particularly against communities of color. Now, weeks into worldwide protests against police brutality and racism sparked

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The ToTok app, which is allegedly a surveillance operation by the United Arab Emirates.

Top 50 Social App ToTok Outed As Spying Tool For United Arab Emirates; Apple And Google Delete It

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Apple and Google have removed an app American officials call a spying tool for the United Arab Emirates from the App Store and Google Play. Called ToTok — no relation to TikTok — the app is a communications tool similar to WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. ToTok has 7.9 million downloads between Google Play and the

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Cameras for Business Security & Key Facts of Video Surveillance Systems

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A Breakdown of Commercial Surveillance Camera Types   So I guess pulling it all together, this is a little bit of what you can expect from a video management software suite. It can support multiple different brains of cameras, access control integration. Let’s get back into camera options again. I’m just going to break this

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The Increase in Drones Used for Border Surveillance

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Drones are especially useful to law enforcement and immigration authorities because they’re versatile, undetectable, and relatively inexpensive, and they can link together data from multiple sources. “Companies that are developing these surveillance technologies, they are quite creative in terms of mixing and matching the technologies,” Yun says, noting, for example, that some drones are equipped

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Lean not mean: A user-first framework for surveillance marketing

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Duane Schulz speaking during his “Don’t Be Evil: A Framework for Lean Surveillance Marketing” at MarTech East in Boston on Sept. 18. Data collection is rising in the consumer consciousness. With privacy regulations coming into effect around the globe, and stories of data breaches and fines continually hitting the headlines, themes such as informed consent,

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Surveillance contractor that violated rules by copying traveler images, license plates can continue to work with CBP

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Those systems were later hacked, held for ransom and had their contents posted online, triggering an emergency response inside CBP and exposing confidential agreements, hardware schematics and other records the government has long sought to keep under wraps. Border officials did not learn of the cyberattack until three weeks after the breach was first discovered,

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Ring Camera Surveillance Is Transforming Suburban Life

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Across the United States, consumers are canvassing their communities with a new type of device that’s changing civic life. Camera-equipped doorbells and other home surveillance devices, made by companies like Ring, are documenting facets of suburban existence that once went unnoticed. For years, citizens have used smartphones to monitor their neighborhoods, especially instances of police

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