From Papers, Please!: A report by Thomas Brewster published yesterday by Forbes discloses that the FBI has used court orders issued under the “All Writs Act” (AWA) to order operators of computerized reservation systems (CRSs) to provide weekly reports on any new reservations made by specified persons of interest, for periods of as long as six months at a time. Read…
Category: Govt
EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities
July 13, 2020 – San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, today launched the largest-ever collection of searchable data on police use of surveillance technologies, created as a tool for the public to learn about facial recognition, drones, license plate readers, and…
Intentional privacy breach?: Govt considers releasing patients’ personal data
And this, kids, is a great reminder of why people can never really trust their government with their health/medical information. They may collect it with a set of promises about confidentiality and then decide they can violate their promises. Or in some cases, there may be no law at all specifically protecting your medical info…
Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data all the time, with other hackers or scammers then using it for their own ends. But breached data now has another customer: law enforcement. […] The sale highlights a somewhat novel use of breached data, and signals how data ordinarily associated…