Thomas Gruel reports: A North Charleston Police officer was demoted and put on six months of probation after training history shows he was using city cameras to spy on his wife who he suspected was having an affair. Former Lt. Ryan Terrell admitted to using Verkada security cameras owned by the City of North Charleston…
Category: Surveillance
Migration 5: The truth about the shadowy scheme to check identities
The independent research that informs this reporting was funded through a Fulbright scholarship undertaken at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The views and information do not represent the Fulbright Programme, the US government or the New Zealand Government. By Gill Bonnett of RNZ What started as a scheme to check the identities of a few thousand asylum…
Not to be cynical, but “secure check-in” is just a potential privacy or data security breach, isn’t it?
InterSystems and CLEAR Partner to Transform the Patient and Provider Experience with Enhanced Identity Verification Technology CLEAR Partners with Wellstar Health System to Launch Seamless and Secure Check-in Across Locations IRS defends use of biometric verification for online FOIA filers Thanks to Joe Cadillic for submitting the above items.
Equilibrium between security and privacy: new report on encryption
A new report by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security looks into how to uphold citizens’ privacy while enabling criminal investigation and prosecution Encryption represents an important means of securing private communications. However, at the same time, it also enables threat actors to manage their malicious activities below the radar of law enforcement. Understanding…