Maybe they should change their name and not call themselves “Liberal” anymore? Catharine Tunney reports from Canada: The Liberal government’s proposed border bill would empower police and the country’s spy agency to seek information from a wide range of service providers — including medical professionals, banks and car rental companies — without a warrant, government…
Category: Surveillance
DOJ Seeks More Time on Tower Dumps
Seamus Hughes reports: After previously receiving a ninety day reprieve, today the Justice Department is asking for another month to decide if they will appeal a Mississippi federal judge’s sweeping ruling that determined so-called “tower dumps” are unconstitutional. Tower Dumps are a frequently-used law enforcement technique of pulling large swaths of data from cellular towers,…
Apple fixes new iPhone zero-day bug used in Paragon spyware hacks
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: Researchers revealed on Thursday that two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with spyware made by Paragon. Apple says it has fixed the bug that was used to hack their phones. The Citizen Lab wrote in its report, shared with TechCrunch ahead of its publication, that Apple had told its researchers that the…
Using facial recognition? Three recent articles of interest.
A few reports we were reading this week about facial recognition that we found of note. First, Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Following the Federal Trade Commission’s decision in December 2023 to ban Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition, it has become crystal clear that U.S. regulators expect a risk assessment when a retailer…