Cullen Browder reports: Big brother invasion of privacy or pro-active policing? That’s the question after a new report revealed seven North Carolina universities use or have used powerful social media-monitoring programs to keep an eye on everything from campus protests to student well-being to drugs. […] A new report from the Dallas Morning News, as…
Activists say China’s new Silk Road equips autocrats with spy tech
Rina Chandran reports: The drones were hard to avoid: they buzzed low over the crowd of protesters holding banners and shouting slogans outside the NagaWorld casino in the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh, then hovered above each of the speakers as they called for justice. As hundreds of workers went on strike outside the glass…
Feds want drunk-driving detectors on all new cars after California crash that killed 9
Richard Winton reports: An investigation into a New Year’s Day crash in Avenal, Calif., in 2021 that killed nine people — including seven children — has prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to call for an alcohol-impairment detection system to be installed in all new cars. The NTSB, which investigates the most severe traffic collisions along with other transit disasters,…
Google, Microsoft can get your passwords via web browser’s spellcheck
Recently Britton White and I published a paper on Redline info stealer to try to increase public awareness of how passwords can be stolen from your browser. Here’s another risk. Ax Sharma reports: Extended spellcheck features in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers transmit form data, including personally identifiable information (PII) and in some cases,…