• Tampa police are preparing for the RNC next year by installing surveillance cameras throughout the city. The police will not disclose the locations of the cameras.
• The Security Industry Association, a lobbying group working for the explosive surveillance industrial complex, is upset about the recent House Budget proposal, which would cut DHS funding for surveillance as part of broad government spending cuts put forward in the latest "debt deal."
• India's government is planning to ask social media companies for encryption keys in order to gain surveillance access to Twitter, Facebook and other online communications.
• Groups ranging from the trade lobbying group the Internet Security Alliance to the Electronic Privacy Information Center are criticizing the Obama administration's cybersecurity plan. The trade group says it will actually harm cybersecurity efforts by encouraging companies to keep breaches secret; EPIC says it doesn't provide adequate privacy protections.
• DARPA has awarded a Palo Alto technology firm a 3 million dollar contract to build surveillance robots.
• Verint, the Israeli technology firm that was exposed to be involved with the NSA warrantless wiretapping scandal here in the US, has been named a "Top 10 Foreign Security Brand in China."
• And in the "teach kids to love being tracked" department, this: the FBI has released a child tracking app for mobile technologies.