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12/01/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

The next step in surveillance: “Smart” cameras violate your privacy in the form of AI dashcams for police, threat monitoring for retailers

For Vice President of Marketing of COBAN Technologies David Hinojosa, their new AI software is a “dashcam on steroids.” Such a description may elicit a smile or two but it does call to question just how rapidly we are transitioning to the virtual world. Many privacy and civil liberties activists believe that this new software […]

11/27/2017 / By Ralph Flores

Android devices secretly funnel your private location data to Google (even if you have that setting turned OFF)

Information has emerged that devices operating with an Android operating system keep track of their locations. A phone’s location data is continuously tracked, even without the presence of a SIM card or apps running, until it connects to the internet where the data gathered is then sent to Google — all without the user being […]

08/24/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Neighborhood watch goes CYBER surveillance: New device reads and logs license plates of all vehicles traveling private streets

Are you ready to be monitored the next time you enter a residential neighborhood? If you live in Atlanta, Ga., you very well could have been already. Seven locations across the city are currently serving as the trial sites for Flock, a sensor device that keeps track of traffic on local streets. In essence, Flock […]

07/26/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Uber violates your privacy by permanently storing all the locations where you were picked up and dropped off

A glitch in the latest iteration of the Uber app permanently stores pick-up and drop-off locations on the user’s mobile phone, with updates being continually sent to the device even without inputting a password. This bug has been implicated in the dozens of divorce cases now being filed across Europe. According to litigation specialists and […]

07/12/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Google will soon obtain private genetic data on hundreds of thousands of medical patients… without their consent

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently ruled that the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust broke the law, as it failed to comply with the Data Protection Act when it transferred 1.6 million patient records to DeepMind, an artificial intelligence research group owned by Google. In response to the ruling, NHS signed an undertaking to […]

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