Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
The conditions inside the Fulton County Jail system are dire. Inmates at one of the jails in Atlanta, Georgia, are sleeping on […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
The Bizarre Reality of Getting Online in North Korea
Over the past decade, there has been an increased number of digital devices in North Korea. Around 50 to 80 percent of adults […]
Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM
In December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child sexual abuse […]
AI Is Being Used to ‘Turbocharge’ Scams
Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates, researchers revealed this week. Staff at security firm Eclypsium found […]
The Messy US Influence That’s Helping Iranians Stay Online
Digital rights activists working outside the country to support Iran say the US government’s support of circumvention tools has been valuable. “It’s […]
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
Despite that trend away from dark-web fentanyl sales, four members of the US Congress this week reintroduced a bill called the Dark […]
Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption
Jakubowska, who reviewed the document, says that several countries appear to say they would give police access to people’s encrypted messages and […]
Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules came into […]
A TikTok ‘Car Theft’ Challenge Is Costing Hyundai $200 Million
But wait, there’s more. Each week we round up the security stories we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on the headlines […]
The US Post Office Is Spying on the Mail. Senators Want to Stop It
The notion that only a mail carrier will view a piece of mail is based on a quainter understanding of the mail […]