Anne Toomey McKenna, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences and a cyberlaw expert, spoke to The Conversation about how consumer electronics and mobile apps can be used to collect vast amounts of personal data without your knowledge. On Saturday…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Oregon used a specially designed app to identify areas and people for special attention. During the operations, they were tasked with meeting their daily arrest quota, The Guardian reports. Details emerged during…
To understand how federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) use various tools to monitor migrants, NPR compiled dozens of testimonies describing encounters with federal immigration officials in recent months. One evening in late January, Emily was driving through her neighborhood…
Google records your movements even if you don't explicitly ask it to. Step-by-step instructions on how to disable this feature were published by the Daily Mail. The Google service on Android and iPhone keeps records of your location even after you…
Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is listening and recording your conversation. It also tracks who, when, where and for how long you talk. How the secret phone spying program works and how to avoid it, explained...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a digital surveillance network through which the agency can access information about almost every person in the US. Such conclusions were reached as a result of a two-year investigation by the Center for Privacy and Technology. Learn more about this…
Deportation agents are using a smartphone app during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow immigrants released from detention to attend online deportation hearings and to check their location, which advocates say violates their privacy, AP reports. . More…
The Israeli authorities have taken emergency measures to monitor compliance with quarantine rules, the BBC reported. Intelligence agencies have received permission to track the movement of people through their mobile phones without notice. On the subject: Ukraine and Moldova have introduced nationwide quarantines due to coronavirus: Israel isolates visitors Published ...
Slate decided to make a rating of the most dangerous companies in the world. The top thirty includes such well-known giants as Airbnb, IBM, SpaceX and - unexpectedly - even Disney. MC today prepared a translation of a part of the material. This is what the top ten most dangerous look like. 10. Exxon Mobil Year of merger:…
Russia and China are spreading their information control models, surveillance and censorship technologies to 110 countries that have acquired or copied them. This is stated in the new report “The World Wide Web of Russian and Chinese Information Control” by the American Open Technology Foundation...