surveillance
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Cars With Self-Driving Capabilities Are Watching You
Self-driving cars still don’t exist, despite a decade of research and development from both start-ups and legacy automakers. But Level 2 vehicles with advanced driver-assistance systems similar to self-driving technology do exist, and those cars are more and more often turning their electronic eye inwards to monitor the supposed real cause of car crashes: Human…
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Democrats Band Together to Try Yet Another U.S. Federal Facial Recognition Ban
Senate Democrats introduced new legislation Tuesday attempting to, once again, outright ban facial recognition use by federal agencies and officials, particularly law enforcement. If passed, the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act would cut the feds off from a variety of other sensitive biometrics identifiers, like voice and gait recognition, and limit federal grant…
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Forget Spy Balloons, the World of Surveillance Has Tried Everything From Schoolchildren to Trained Cats
The Chinese “spy balloon” shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines. Balloons have long been used for espionage – and not just for surveillance, as appears to be the case with this one. In the 1950s, Soviet soldiers in East Germany often saw…
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Top Android Phones From China Are Packed With Spyware, Research Finds
New research suggests that users of top-of-the-line Android devices sold in China are getting their personal data pilfered left, right and centre, according to new research. The collection, which is happening without notification or consent, could easily lead to the persistent tracking of users and the easy unmasking of their identities.