Campus cops: increasingly militarized, aggressive, and secretive
Harvard University campus police crumple Occupy Harvard signs. Photo credit: Occupy Harvard.
Kade Crockford, Author at Privacy SOS | Page 34 of 182
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Metadata matters: Study shows GPS, communications data can reveal whether you’re depressed
A study published today in the Journal of Internet Medical Research finds that analyzing GPS and communications records from your smartphone can predict with near 90% accuracy whether or not you're depressed.
The Verge reports:
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Hacking Team says its software is “scalable…to hundreds of thousands of targets” with one installation
More from the Hacking Team trove: an email from company CEO David Vincenzetti to hundreds of clients and potential clients in which he brags about the company's technology:
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Hacking Team CEO on FBI campaign to loosen rules on government hacking: “very well advised”
One of Italian spyware firm Hacking Team's millions of emails now posted online is a message from its CEO, David Vincenzetti, to a list of what appears to be clients and potential clients. The March 2015 message links to a story in National Journal about the FBI's plan to change a federal rule to grant judges more leeway in approving warrants for electronic surveillance achieved through hacking.
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Drug prohibition is literally killing us
Heroin related overdose deaths have quadrupled in the United States since 2002, a new report finds. In Portugal the overdose rate plummetted during about the same period.
What was the difference between these two countries during roughly the same time frame?
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The FBI’s attack on encryption and the misleading phrase “lawful interception”
.@SenTomCotton: just to be clear, were talking about not extraordinary surveillance but encryption tech that wld thwart lawful ct order
