Catalin Cimpanu reports: Spyware-like features have been discovered inside an app named “Beijing One Pass” that foreign companies operating in China are forced to install on their systems in order to access a digital platform to manage employee state benefits. The spyware behavior was discovered last month by Insikt Group, the threat research division of…
Category: Govt
Florida Sheriff’s Office Now Notifying People It Will Be Inflicting Its Pre-Crime Program On Them
Tim Cushing writes: The Pasco County (FL) Sheriff’s Office has been swamped with negative press coverage centering on its predictive policing program. The Office claims it’s not “predictive policing,” but rather “intelligence-led policing.” Whatever you call it, it sucks. The Sheriff’s Office may have some lofty goals that involve stopping crime before it starts, but the…
Biden Gives “Five Eyes” What It Always Wanted: Access To Everyone’s Social Media
Joe Cadillic writes: For years, Americans have largely ignored corporate social media surveillance. But all of that is about to change, thanks to President Biden. No one has taken the White House’s plan to turn Big Tech into a quasi-Five Eyes censorship program seriously despite repeated warnings from journalists and news websites. Journalist Caitlin Johnstone warned, the White House…
EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program
Service Looked Through People’s Posts Prior to Street Protests Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records about a covert program to secretly comb through online posts of social media users before street protests, raising concerns about chilling the privacy…