George Joseph & Debbie Nathan | The Intercept | Source URL Roughly six months ago at New York’s Sing Sing prison, John Dukes says he was brought out with cellmates to meet a corrections counselor. He recalls her giving him a paper with some phrases and offering him a strange […]
Scientists Urge World To Share DNA In Centralized Database “For Your Protection”
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL Between the ever-encroaching eye of Big Brother, the imminent events of pre-crime AI, the exposure of tech behemoth privacy contempt, and the inevitable ‘hack’ of any and everything online, it is perhaps understandable that your average joe is more than a little nervous […]
NY Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Massive Marriott Hack
Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge | Source URL Update: New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood has launched an investigation into the hack of Starwood’s guest registration system announced Friday morning. And while one analyst who appeared on CNBC Friday morning said he didn’t expect the scandal to have a long-term […]
National bike share data program allows DOT’s to identify scooter and bike share users in real-time
Mass Private I | Source URL A recent article in Smart Cities Dive revealed that the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (DOT) will be partnering with Remix, Lime and Spin to create a mobility data standard for ride shares. A ‘mobility data standard’ is just a fancy way of saying a real-time scooter and bicycle tracking standard. […]
French spy used darknet to sell access to national mass-surveillance databases
Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing | Source URL A cop working for the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (the French national domestic surveillance agency) used the darknet marketplace Black Hand to sell access to France’s prodigious national surveillance apparatus to criminals: give him a phone number and he’d track its […]