Matt Burgess reports: For more than 100 years, recording people’s fingerprints has involved them pressing their fingertips against a surface. Originally this involved ink but has since moved to sensors embedded in scanners at airports and phone screens. The next stage of fingerprinting doesn’t involve touching anything at all. So-called contactless fingerprinting technology uses your phone’s…
Category: Govt
She confided in a doctor about her depression. The next thing she knew, the government took away her driver’s licence
Robert Cribb, Declan Keogh of the Investigative Journalism Bureau, Max Binks-Collier, and Danielle Orr report: During an intense flare-up of her depression, Karysa Mackay checked into a Thunder Bay hospital for crisis care. Three days later, Mackay had her licence suspended after a psychiatrist she doesn’t recall ever meeting reported her to the Ministry of…
How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data
By Bennett Cyphers Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to surveil the movements of millions of people. Many of the mobile apps on our cell phones track our movements with great precision and frequency. Data brokers harvest our location data…
Westfield council orders IT to remove “spyware” from clerk-treasurer’s computers
Anna Skinner reports: After nearly a year of litigation between Westfield Mayor Andy Cook and Clerk-Treasurer Cindy Gossard, the Westfield City Council asked the city’s Director of Informatics, Chris Larsen, to remove the BeyondTrust software from the clerk-treasurer’s office computers during a June 13 council meeting. The meeting included public discussion between council members, Larsen…