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Town halls harvest millions of personal details including if you’re being unfaithful or in debt - 11 décembre 2020
The Covid data spies paid to know ALL your secrets : Town halls harvest millions of highly personal details including if you’re being unfaithful or having unsafe sex
A private firm inked deals with local authorities to gather data that can be used to predict who is likely to break lockdown, creating risk analyses (...)
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There will be more than a BILLION CCTV cameras globally by the end of next year, researchers claim - 29 juillet 2020
18 of the top 20 most surveilled cities in the league table are found in China
London came third with the capital having one camera for every 15 people
Technology website Comparitech say there could be a billion globally next year
The world will be watched by an astonishing one billion CCTV cameras by the end (...)
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PROFESSOR NOEL SHARKEY says facial recognition cameras sweeping the UK should worry us all | Daily Mail Online - 13 février 2020
Surveillance cameras are filming us everywhere. We know that and we’re used to it. We also know the images won’t be analysed unless there’s been a crime – so that’s OK, isn’t it ?
No it’s not. Because, as The Mail on Sunday reveals today, a number of police forces and councils have recently adopted a controversial new (...)
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Schools put police-style body cameras on TEACHERS | Daily Mail Online - 11 février 2020
Southfields Academy, South West London, said they helped in confrontations
One school is using them to tackle anti-social behaviour by non-students
One other unnamed secondary school is also trying out the body cameras
Teachers are using body-worn cameras in an attempt to stamp out bad behaviour.
One of three (...)
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China and Taiwan go to war over Wikipedia edits as hundreds of changes to description of the island territory are uncovered - 15 octobre 2019
The description of Taiwan changes from ’state in East Asia’ to ’province in China’
Hong Kong protests page was changed at least 65 times in a single day
Almost 1,600 biased edits were found across 22 politically sensitive articles
Hundreds of recently uncovered Chinese edits to Taiwan’s Wikipedia page have revealed (...)
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AI surveillance cameras could soon identify... - 17 février 2018
AI surveillance cameras could soon identify faces in a crowd with 99 percent accuracy
If you’re afraid that security cameras are watching your every move, things could soon get a lot worse.
CCTV cameras will soon be outfitted with facial recognition technology that scans and identifies faces in public 24/7.
The (...)
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Put CCTV in EVERY home : Householders should help us trap burglars, says Scotland Yard chief - 13 mars 2015
Homeowners should consider fitting CCTV to trap burglars, the country’s most senior police officer declared yesterday.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said police forces needed more crime scene footage to match against their 12million images of suspects and offenders.
And he called on families and businesses to install (...)
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Researchers reveal software that can track people as they walk from camera to camera in real time - 18 novembre 2014
Firm says technology could allow for ’real time Google Earth’ with live people shown
Researchers say system could have tracked Boston bombers ’within hours’
Could also allow people to be tracked without having to sift through hours of footage
We are all used to our image being captured by CCTV everywhere we go - (...)
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Operation overkill : Armed cops swoop on Action Man looking for a mortar after owner posts picture of toy weapon on Facebook - 18 février 2013
There were five police officers at the door, two of them carrying submachine guns.
And they were ready to smash the door open so it was fortunate Ian Driscoll was in when they pulled up outside his home.
They had come in search of a deadly mortar tube "“ spotted in the background of a picture that Mr Driscoll had (...)
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Fears for civil liberties as Apple patents technology that could remotely disable protesters’ smartphones - 9 novembre 2012
Apple have received a patent for a technology that could allow the police to disable protesters smartphones, it has emerged.
The new technology would act as a ’kill switch’ for smartphones, disabling any cameras on the devices and blocking their connection to mobile networks.
Apple stresses that the function would (...)
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Revealed : Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you (and they include ’pork’, ’cloud’ and ’Mexico’) - 2 juin 2012
The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ’attack’, ’Al Qaeda’, ’terrorism’ and ’dirty bomb’ (...)
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Big Brother just got scarier : Japanese CCTV camera can scan 36 million faces per second - and recognise anyone who has walked into its gaze - 12 mai 2012
A new camera technology from Hitachi Hokusai Electric can scan days of camera footage instantly, and find any face which has EVER walked past it.
Its makers boast that it can scan 36 million faces per second.
The technology raises the spectre of governments - or other organisations - being able to ’find’ anyone (...)
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Twitter secrets for sale : Privacy row as every tweet for last two years is bought up by data firm - 8 mars 2012
Privacy campaigners condemned Twitter yesterday for allowing businesses to buy access to its archive of millions of tweets.
About seven million people in Britain use the social networking website to post short messages to "˜followers’.
Most believe their tweets are unavailable to those outside their chosen network (...)
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Council accused of a ’staggering invasion of privacy’ as it plans to record EVERY conversation that takes place in taxi cabs - 18 novembre 2011
All cabs in Oxford will have at least one CCTV camera
Taxpayer will be lumbered with £260,000 bill
Civil liberties groups brand move a ’staggering invasion of privacy’
Council says it is acting after increased complaints including sexual assaults and attacks on drivers
Cab drivers and their passengers are to be (...)
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Immigration officer fired after putting wife on list of terrorists to stop her flying home - 3 février 2011
An immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects.
He used his access to security databases to include his wife on a watch list of people banned from boarding flights into Britain because their presence in the country is ’not conducive to the public good’. (...)
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New ID cards are supposed to be ’unforgeable’ - but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data - 14 août 2010
Adam Laurie is no ordinary hacker. In the world of computing, he is considered a genius - a man whose talents are used by government departments and blue-chip companies to guard against terrorists and cyber-criminals.
But even by his standards, what he is about to demonstrate is mind-boggling - and deeply (...)
