Chloe Xiang reports: The Queensland, Australia police have used DNA phenotyping for the first time ever in hopes of leading to a breakthrough for a 1982 murder. The department partnered with a U.S.-based company called Parabon NanoLabs to create a profile image of the murder suspect, a Caucasian man with long blonde hair. Police claim…
Twitter Auditors Missed Lapses Later Exposed by Whistleblower
Leah Nylen and Jason Leopold report: A previously undisclosed government-ordered audit of Twitter Inc.’s privacy and data controls missed failures later exposed by a whistleblower — raising questions about oversight of major technology platforms. The 2021 external audit, obtained by Bloomberg News in response to a public records request, concluded that the company had appropriate safeguards….
Search warrant needed for drone surveillance over a home – federal court
FourthAmendment.com informs us: A request for a court order for drone surveillance over a home requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. A request under the All Writs Act isn’t the way to do it. In re Application of the United States For An Order Authorizing Small Unmanned Aircraft Sys. Surveillance of Private Prop., 2022…
Twitter security execs quit amid worries that Musk will violate FTC settlement
As someone who was an active user of Twitter for more than a decade, I cannot begin to communicate how utterly awful that platform has become in the past few years. First, it was all the disinformation and vileness by Trump supporters who seemingly refuse to understand that a private company is not a government…