Annalyn Censky reports: Attention holiday shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year. Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year’s Day, two U.S. malls — Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. — will track guests’ movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones. Read…
Category: U.S.
Do-not-track hypocrisy
Jeff Jarvis takes the New York Times to task for its editorial supporting a federal Do Not Track measure while their own behavior might be described as Extreme Tracking. You can read his column on Business Insider, here.
License plate readers: A useful tool for police comes with privacy concerns
Allison Klein and Josh White report on license plate cameras that are generating a huge database in Washington, D.C. with the ability to track everyone’s movements. They report, in part: More than 250 cameras in the District and its suburbs scan license plates in real time, helping police pinpoint stolen cars and fleeing killers. But…
Hewlett-Packard Computers Underpin Syria Surveillance Project
Vernon Silver reports: Hewlett-Packard Co. equipment worth more than $500,000 has been installed in computer rooms in Syria, underpinning a surveillance system being built to monitor e-mails and Internet use, according to documents from the deal and a person familiar with the installation. The gear made by Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett- Packard would run a…