Karen Chiu reports: For parents looking to keep track of their kids’ whereabouts, there’s no lack of gadgets designed to do the job. Now parents will be able to do it for free in one area in China. A district government in the southern city of Guangzhou recently distributed free location-tracking smartwatches to about 17,000…
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CBP settles lawsuit challenging demand for ID from arriving domestic airline passengers
From Papers, Please!: The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division of DHS has agreed to a settlement with passengers who were ordered to show ID documents before they were allowed to leave a Delta Air Lines plane after it arrived in New York after a flight from San Francisco. Nine of the passengers on…
Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
Caroline Haskins reports: Palantir is one of the most significant and secretive companies in big data analysis. The company acts as an information management service for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, corporations like JP Morgan and Airbus, and dozens of other local, state, and federal agencies. It’s been described by scholars as a “secondary surveillance network,”…
IRS Proposes Extreme Tactics for Investigating Crypto Users
Jamie Redman reports: An IRS slideshow created by James Daniels, IRS-CI cyber crimes program manager, describes some concerning methods IRS agents should use to crack down on crypto-using tax evaders. The slide follows the IRS’ recently announcing tax guidelines on cryptocurrencies, which will contain rules about the tax treatment of digital assets and forks. Even…