Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize. https://media.wired.com/photos/632ba19662435d269fdbdba4/master/pass/security-shameware.jpg
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Chinese Surveillance, Facebook Tracking, and More Security News This Week
3-D printed rifles, Iran missile hacking, and more of the week’s top security news. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c672ea42cbde374dceb08a7/master/pass/Security-Roundup-UighurMuslims-126330936.jpg
Previously secret CIA report documents spear attack against surveillance plane
An aerial image from a low-level overflight of the Congo by a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in 1964 caught this moment in which a spear was thrown at the aircraft. In the 1960s, during the civil wars and political upheaval that rocked what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States […]
Amazon Exposes Emails, Insurance Company Surveillance, and More Security News This Week
A USPS data leak, Windows passwords go bye-bye, and more security news this week. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bf5aa69fec8242d1ca6628b/master/pass/Amazon-1067787384.jpg
Surveillance Kills Freedom By Killing Experimentation
When we’re being watched, we conform. We don’t speak freely or try new things. But social progress happens in the gap between what’s legal and what’s moral. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bedb35d5d7c6a7b81d79e5a/master/pass/TheEndofTrust.jpg
Surveillance with a smile: Biometrics firms seek to incentivize facial recognition
Operating on the gradual model of Google and Facebook, biometrics companies are plotting a slow rollout of facial recognition technology, barbed with incentives to hook customers and distract them from the demise of privacy. Arenas, airports and stores are already adopting facial recognition software to identify criminals, from shoplifters to potential terrorists – so marketing […]
Russian surveillance plane got shot down by Syria—and Russia blames Israel
Enlarge / An Ilyushin IL-20M intelligence collection aircraft, the type shot down Monday evening by Syrian air defenses. (credit: Kirill Naumenko) On Monday night, a Russian Air Force Ilyushin IL-20 “Coot-A” electronic intelligence and radar reconnaissance aircraft monitoring the Idlib province of Syria was mistakenly shot down by Syrian air defense forces after an Israeli […]
European Court rules UK surveillance program violated human rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the latest to deem the UK government’s mass surveillance program unlawful. Judges ruled the “bulk interception regime” violated the right to privacy and freedom of expression. It said there was “insufficient oversight” over what communications UK agencies were collecting and also noted that there were “inadequate” safeguards […]
Airport Surveillance, FBI Brain Drain, and More Security News This Week
A Chipotle scam, FBI brain drain, and more of the week’s top security news. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b64a2494177c301e3b9b047/master/pass/Airport-531739962.jpg
FBI releases Carter Page surveillance documents, Trump claims his campaign was spied on illegally
Associated Press/Pavel Golovkin Following months of partisan arguments in Congress, the FBI released heavily redacted documents about the surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser. The agency was investigating whether Carter Page was conspiring with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 US presidential election. President Donald Trump seized on the documents to claim his […]
