DSS Co Ltd, a Japanese firm that edits and processes digital maps based on survey data, started a service of recording the actions of factory workers for long hours and visualize them. The tools used for collecting the data are (1) the “ankle sensor” to be attached to the leg of a worker for recording…
Category: Surveillance
Bluetooth “Big Brother” tracks festival-goers
Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices. The team from the University of Ghent in Belgium believes the research could yield new satellite navigation applications for the retail and security…
Cybersecurity plan to involve NSA, telecoms
Since The Washington Post first broke the news that the Obama administration is moving ahead with Einstein, a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, the drum beat from privacy advocates has been growing. Today, Siobham Gorman of The Wall Street Journal reports that the latest…
DOJ wins rehearing in Tooley wiretapping suit
Scott Tooley narrowly won an appellate court victory earlier this year in his suit against top government officials, accusing them of invading his privacy through purported wiretaps, clandestine surveillance and “terrorist watch lists.” Now he may lose again. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-to-1 in February…