Slashdot Items Tagged "surveillance"

Date / Time Story
Friday April 12, 2024 @04:58PM House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program
Friday February 09, 2024 @10:16AM London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools To Spot Crime
Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:40PM Amazon's Ring To Stop Letting Police Request Doorbell Video From Users
Monday January 22, 2024 @07:17PM EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:54PM New Jersey Used COVID Relief Funds To Buy Banned Chinese Surveillance Cameras
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:30PM Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Methods To Stop Digital Surveillance In Schools?
Monday November 20, 2023 @09:03PM Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access To Trillions of US Phone Records
Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:02PM Fusus' AI-Powered Cameras Are Spreading Across the United States
Friday August 25, 2023 @11:14AM NSA Orders Employees To Spy on the World 'With Dignity and Respect'
Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:25PM DHS Has Spent Millions On an AI Surveillance Tool That Scans For 'Sentiment and Emotion'
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed
Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:06PM NYC Subway Using AI To Track Fare Evasion
Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:09PM NYPD To Test Public Announcement Drones During Emergencies
Monday July 17, 2023 @08:18PM Footage From Amazon's In-Van Surveillance Cameras Is Leaking Online
Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:32PM EU Votes To Ban AI In Biometric Surveillance, Require Disclosure From AI Systems
Wednesday May 24, 2023 @04:23PM Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To Warrantless Pole Camera Surveillance
Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:58PM License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy of Your Homeowners Association
Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:26AM German Court Rules Police Use of Crime-Fighting Software is Unlawful
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:42AM Monroe video surveillance system
Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:18AM Video Surveillance in United States
Friday December 09, 2022 @09:14PM Swiss Data Protection Commissioner Orders Government To Publicly Release Surveillance Tech Export Licenses
Monday November 21, 2022 @07:46AM Solar Surveillance Camera Trailer
Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:37PM The NYPD Joins Amazon's Ring Neighbors Surveillance Network
Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:48PM Ring Cameras Are Being Used To Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers
Saturday September 24, 2022 @12:54PM Controversial Artist Matches Influencer Photos With Surveillance Footage
Friday September 23, 2022 @04:34PM San Francisco Passes Controversial Surveillance Plan
Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:51PM Civil Rights Groups Are Calling On Amazon To Cancel 'Ring Nation' Reality Show
Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:15PM Tech Tool Offers Police 'Mass Surveillance On a Budget'
Monday August 22, 2022 @04:59PM Star American Professor Masterminded a Surveillance Machine For Chinese Big Tech
Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:07PM US Military Contractor Moves To Buy Israeli Spy-Tech Company NSO Group
Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:12PM South Korea Turns To Surveillance As 'Ghost Surgeries' Shake Faith In Hospitals
Friday May 13, 2022 @05:49PM San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars As Mobile Surveillance Cameras
Tuesday May 10, 2022 @05:50PM ICE 'Now Operates As a Domestic Surveillance Agency,' Think Tank Says
Friday April 29, 2022 @03:56PM FBI Searched the Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants
Friday April 22, 2022 @06:31PM American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo'd Surveillance Powers By Spying On CIA and NSA
Monday March 28, 2022 @01:27PM When Nokia Pulled Out of Russia, a Vast Surveillance System Remained
Wednesday March 23, 2022 @05:30PM Bipartisan Proposed Legislation To Curtail Secretive Email Seizure
Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:43AM New Yorkers in High Stop-and-Frisk Areas Subject To More Facial Recognition Tech
Monday January 31, 2022 @06:14PM Academic Journal Claims It Fingerprints PDFs For 'Ransomware,' Not Surveillance
Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:42PM Israeli Citizens Targeted By Police Using Pegasus Spyware, Report Claims
Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:37AM Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public
Friday December 17, 2021 @06:08PM Facebook Bans 7 'Surveillance-For-Hire' Companies That Spied On 50,000 Users
Monday December 06, 2021 @10:05AM Executive at Swiss Tech Company Said to Operate Secret Surveillance Operation
Monday November 29, 2021 @02:08PM Chinese Province Targets Journalists, Foreign Students With Planned New Surveillance System
Monday November 08, 2021 @07:32PM Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
Friday September 24, 2021 @02:38PM Other than Prison, Electronic Monitoring is 'the Most Restrictive Form' of Control, Research Finds
Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:20PM Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure Is a Winged Microchip, Scientists Say
Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:28PM NYPD Secretly Spent $159 Million On Surveillance Tech Since 2007
Monday August 09, 2021 @04:56PM Uber Asked Contractor To Allow Video Surveillance In Employee Homes, Bedrooms
Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:08PM 48 Advocacy Groups Call On the FTC To Ban Amazon Surveillance
Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:36PM Mysterious Israeli Spyware Vendor's Windows Zero-Days Caught in the Wild
Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:01PM A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers In India To Yell At Armed Robbers
Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:45PM Chinese Hackers Posing As the UN Human Rights Council Are Attacking Uyghurs
Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:50PM Biden Team May Partner With Private Firms To Monitor Extremist Chatter Online
Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:47PM China Orders Companies To Step Up Monitoring of Foreigners In Anti-Spying Campaign
Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:56PM Surveillance Company Wants To Sell Over 15 Billion Car Locations To the US Military
Friday March 05, 2021 @03:52PM China's 'Sharp Eyes' Program Aims To Surveil 100% of Public Space
Monday February 01, 2021 @07:52PM Amazon's Ring Now Reportedly Partners With More Than 2,000 US Police and Fire Departments
Friday January 22, 2021 @05:41PM A Home Security Worker Hacked Into Surveillance Systems To Watch People Have Sex
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:16PM Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google
Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:15PM Mannequins That Watch Shoppers
Monday December 28, 2020 @04:34PM Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant
Monday November 16, 2020 @05:14PM Demand For Employee Surveillance Increased As Workers Transitioned To Home Working
Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:54PM Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Joins Amazon's Board of Directors
Friday June 19, 2020 @11:36AM NYC Passes POST Act, Requiring Police Department To Reveal Surveillance Technologies
Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:02AM China Is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Men and Boys, Using US Equipment
Friday June 12, 2020 @04:58PM Many Police Departments Have Software That Can Identify People In Crowds
Monday June 08, 2020 @09:25PM ACLU Sues LA Over Controversial Scooter Tracking System
Friday June 05, 2020 @12:00PM Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use its Tech
Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:51PM From RealPlayer To Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush
Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:33PM DEA Authorized To Conduct Surveillance On Protesters
Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:53AM Apple is tracking iPhones stolen by looters
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:37PM House Leaders Strike Deal To Protect US Web Browsing Data From Warrantless Surveillance
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:26PM China Wants To Use Its Coronavirus App To Track How Much Its Citizens Sleep, Drink, and Smoke
Monday May 25, 2020 @10:42AM Leaked Senate Talking Points Say Internet Surveillance Warrants Would Force FBI To Let Terrorists Bomb Things
Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:51PM Senate Passes Surveillance Bill Without Ban On Web History Snooping
Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:43PM WeChat Surveils International Accounts To Decide What To Censor for Chinese Users, Study Says
Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:48PM Number-Plate Cam Site Had No Password, Spills 8.6 Million Logs of UK Road Journeys
Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:50AM The ACLU Wants To Know Why Facebook Beat a 2018 Wiretap Case
Monday April 27, 2020 @06:36PM China Demonstrates 25+ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:55AM Whole Foods Is Reportedly Using a Heat Map To Track Stores At Risk of Unionization
Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:27AM Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic, experts say
Friday April 10, 2020 @06:33AM Federal appeals court says Facebook must face renewed privacy lawsuit
Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:04PM Moscow To Launch Mandatory Surveillance App To Track Residents In Coronavirus Lockdown
Saturday March 28, 2020 @01:02PM Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software To Keep Tabs On Remote Workers
Sunday March 22, 2020 @06:21PM Locked-Down Lawyers Warned Alexa Is Hearing Confidential Calls
Tuesday March 17, 2020 @05:01PM Surveillance Company Says It's Deploying 'Coronavirus-Detecting' Cameras In US
Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:24PM Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps To Scrape Social Media
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:35PM Surveillance Company Banjo Used a Secret Company and Fake Apps To Scrape Social Media
Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:15PM Court Says Removing a Police GPS Tracker From Your Car Isn't Theft
Friday February 07, 2020 @05:31PM UK To Host Spyware Firm Accused of Aiding Human Rights Abuses
Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:44PM Welfare Surveillance System Violates Human Rights, Dutch Court Rules
Monday January 27, 2020 @07:53PM Albatrosses Outfitted With GPS Trackers Detect Illegal Fishing Vessels
Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:43PM MLB: Use Electronic Surveillance To Capture Fans' Data, Not Opponents' Signs
Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:32PM Secretive Surveillance Company Is Selling Cops Cameras Hidden In Gravestones
Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:58PM Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
Friday December 27, 2019 @10:55AM China Shows Its Dominance in Surveillance Technology
Friday December 20, 2019 @06:10PM Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance
Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:47PM A Data Leak Exposed the Personal Info of Over 3,000 Ring Users
Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:55PM Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules
Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:42PM A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast To Be Watching Within Two Years
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @06:55PM Ring Reportedly Outed Camera Owners To Police With a Heat Map
Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:44PM Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition
Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:57PM Uber To Allow Audio Recording of Rides, Aiming To Launch Feature In US
Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:43AM Warehouses Are Tracking Workers' Every Muscle Movement
Friday November 01, 2019 @06:59PM Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School
Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:49PM ACLU Sues FBI, DOJ Over Facial-Recognition Technology, Criticizing 'Unprecedented' Surveillance and Secrecy
Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:00PM Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool To Squelch Worker Dissent
Monday October 14, 2019 @08:00PM China Has Gained the Ability To Spy On More Than 100 Million Citizens Via a Heavily Promoted Official App, Report Suggests
Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:29PM FBI's Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans' Privacy Rights: Court
Friday October 04, 2019 @04:42PM Hong Kong Announces Ban On Masks, Face Paint That Helps Protesters Evade Facial Recognition
Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:07PM EFF Wins Access To License Plate Reader Data To Study Law Enforcement Use
Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:42AM France Set To Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:34PM Motorola, Known For Cellphones, is Fast Becoming a Major Player in Government Surveillance
Monday September 30, 2019 @09:44PM New App Claims It Can Identify Venture Capitalists Using Facial Recognition
Monday September 30, 2019 @09:52AM Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
Thursday September 26, 2019 @06:24PM Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Laws To Pitch To Lawmakers
Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:49AM Researchers Determine the 120 Most Surveilled (CCTV) Cities In the World
Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:26PM Comparitech Publishes Data On The 120 Most Surveilled (CCTV) Cities In The World
Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:21AM India Is Planning a Huge China-Style Facial Recognition Program
Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:17PM AI Surveillance is Expanding Worldwide
Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:24AM Doorbell-Camera Firm Ring Has Partnered With 400 Police Forces, Extending Surveillance Reach
Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:32PM The Fashion Line Designed To Trick Surveillance Cameras
Monday August 12, 2019 @06:26PM Ring Told People To Snitch On Their Neighbors In Exchange For Free Stuff
Monday August 05, 2019 @04:45PM Amazon Is Coaching Cops On How To Obtain Surveillance Footage Without a Warrant
Friday August 02, 2019 @03:03PM US Cities Are Helping People Buy Amazon Surveillance Cameras Using Taxpayer Money
Friday August 02, 2019 @02:58PM Pentagon Testing Mass Surveillance Balloons Across the US
Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:50PM Cops Are Giving Amazon's Ring Your Real-Time 911 Caller Data
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:36PM Cisco To Pay $8.6 Million Fine For Selling Hackable Surveillance Tech
Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:55PM Everything Cops Say About Amazon's Ring Is Scripted Or Approved By Ring
Friday July 12, 2019 @05:16PM A New Study Uses Camera Footage To Track the Frequency of Bystander Intervention
Friday July 12, 2019 @03:58PM Revealed: This Is Palantir's Top-Secret User Manual For Cops
Monday July 01, 2019 @01:53PM How Amazon and the Cops Set Up an Elaborate Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing
Friday June 28, 2019 @02:48AM A Second US City Has Banned Facial Recognition
Friday June 21, 2019 @04:53PM Amazon Patents 'Surveillance As a Service' Tech For Its Delivery Drones
Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:46PM House Lawmakers Demand End To Warrantless Collection of Americans' Data
Friday June 14, 2019 @05:11PM Retail Stores Use Bluetooth Beacons To Track Customers
Friday June 14, 2019 @03:23PM In Stores, Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move
Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:01PM Credit Scores Based On AI and Your Social Media Profile Could Usher In New Way For Banks To Discriminate
Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:54AM China Surveillance Tycoons Lose Billions From Threat of US Sanctions
Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:33AM Trump Administration Considers Banning Another Major Chinese Firm
Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:28PM Millions of People Uploaded Photos To the Ever App. Then the Company Used Them To Develop Facial Recognition Tools.
Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:14AM The Feds Are Dropping Child Porn Cases Instead of Revealing Their Surveillance Systems
Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:53AM NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program
Wednesday April 24, 2019 @06:05PM UK To Let Huawei Firm Help Build 5G Network
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @05:04PM Microsoft Worked With Chinese Military University on AI
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:46AM Are the Kids All Right? These School Surveillance Apps Sure Want To Tell You
Monday April 08, 2019 @06:01PM 'Exodus' Spyware Found Targeting Apple iOS Users
Friday April 05, 2019 @05:01PM Airbnb Guest Found Hidden Surveillance Camera By Scanning Wi-Fi Network
Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:57PM US Conducted Secret Surveillance of China's Huawei, Prosecutors Say
Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:43AM People Changing Jobs Too Often Could Be Punished by China's Social Credit System
Tuesday February 26, 2019 @10:07AM Chinese Police Test Gait-Recognition Technology That Identifies People Based on How They Walk
Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:40AM UAE Used Cyber Super-Weapon To Spy on iPhones of Foes
Friday January 25, 2019 @06:38PM China Creates App To Tell You If You're Near Someone In Debt, Encourages You To Report Them
Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:43PM The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House
Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:37PM Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:39AM Chinese Telecoms Giant ZTE is Helping Venezuela Build a System That Monitors Citizen Behavior Through a New Identification Card
Friday November 09, 2018 @09:40PM The DEA and ICE Are Hiding Surveillance Cameras In Streetlights
Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:46PM Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People By How They Walk; Police Have Started Using It on Streets of Beijing and Shanghai
Monday November 05, 2018 @06:10PM EFF Unveils VR Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices In Their Communities
Tuesday October 30, 2018 @06:47PM Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance
Friday October 26, 2018 @12:40PM Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System
Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:16PM Government Spyware Vendor Left Customer, Victim Data Online for Everyone To See
Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:50PM FBI Director on Whether Apple and Amazon Servers Had Chinese Spy Chips: 'Be Careful What You Read'
Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:01PM German Art Activists Get Passport Using Digitally Altered Photo of Two Women Merged Together
Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:36PM Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries
Monday September 17, 2018 @05:07PM Hackers Hijack Surveillance Camera Footage With 'Peekaboo' Zero-Day Vulnerability
Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:45AM IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage To Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
Friday August 31, 2018 @11:34AM Some Baltimore Residents Are Lobbying To Bring Back Aerial Surveillance
Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:48PM California Officials Admit To Using License Plate Readers To Monitor Welfare Recipients
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:19PM Inspector General Says NSA Still Hasn't Implemented Its Post-Snowden Internal Security Measures
Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:00AM Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports
Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:31AM Walmart's Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns
Monday July 09, 2018 @07:01PM How Fracking Companies Use Facebook Surveillance To Ban Protest
Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:28PM Juggalos Figured Out How To Beat Facial Recognition
Tuesday June 26, 2018 @08:35PM Orlando Police End Test of Amazon's Real-Time Facial 'Rekognition' System
Friday June 22, 2018 @10:01AM Should Facial Recognition Cameras Be In Schools?
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:35PM China's Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars
Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:20PM Google Promises Its AI Will Not Be Used For Weapons
Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:12PM DHS Will Use Facial Recognition To Scan Travelers at the Border
Friday June 01, 2018 @11:17AM Signs of Sophisticated Cellphone Spying Found Near White House, US Officials Say
Friday May 25, 2018 @04:48PM Zimbabwe is Introducing a Mass Facial Recognition Project With Chinese AI Firm CloudWalk
Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:06PM Facebook Accused of Conducting Mass Surveillance Through Its Apps
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:26PM Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women
Friday April 06, 2018 @05:21PM Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Pose a Greater Surveillance Risk Than Facebook
Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:02PM US Suspects Listening Devices in Washington
Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:24PM Cities Worldwide Spent Over $3 Billion Last Year To Peep On You
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:22PM The NSA Worked To 'Track Down' Bitcoin Users, Snowden Documents Reveal
Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:54PM New Bill In Congress Would Bypass the Fourth Amendment, Hand Your Data To Police
Monday March 12, 2018 @04:34PM 'Slingshot' Malware That Hid For Six Years Spread Through Routers
Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:28PM Seattle To Remove Controversial City Spying Network After Public Backlash
Friday February 09, 2018 @10:34AM Turkey Rolls Out Domestic Rival To WhatsApp, Raising Surveillance Concerns
Friday February 02, 2018 @02:08PM GOP Memo Criticizing FBI Surveillance is Released
Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:27PM Amazon Patents Wristbands Designed To Track and Steer Employees' Movements
Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:34AM Judges Say the UK's Digital Surveillance Program Snooper's Charter Is Illegal
Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:42PM Ecuador is Fighting Crime Using Chinese Surveillance Technology
Friday January 19, 2018 @06:10PM Trump Signs Surveillance Extension Into Law
Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:04PM Congress Is About To Vote On Expanding the Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
Tuesday January 09, 2018 @11:18AM Snowden Joins Outcry Against World's Biggest Biometric Database
Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:35PM Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say