We’ve known for a long time that federal authorities have a lot of license plate readers at their disposal, some of which they surely use for nefarious purposes. However, new details have emerged that show exactly how nefarious those purposes are. Does secretly spying on millions of Americans and seizing property sound nefarious enough to care?
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Consumer durables company Panasonic, in partnership with Reliance Communications, launched Cloud Video Intelli-Surveillance solution for Indian enterprises. The solution will combine Panasonic’s expertise in surveillance cameras and video analytics with Reliance’s countrywide network and data centre infrastructure.
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It will take another two days to restart the two suspended Agra development authority (ADA) websites which were hacked on Sunday allegedly by a Moroccan hacker. The private firm, responsible for the maintenance of the websites, has reportedly asked ADA permission for redesigning the sites as they have not been reviewed since their launch. Read…
Access to Facebook, the world’s largest social network, and its Instagram photo-sharing site, was blocked around the world for up to an hour on Tuesday, which the company said later was due to an internal fault and not an outside attack.
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Thailand’s junta chief Tuesday defended proposals for a cyber law that critics say will grant the government unprecedented surveillance powers with little judicial oversight. A new law granting authorities the right to access emails, telephone records, computers and postal mail without court approval — if they suspect national security is at risk — is tabled…
Red Hat Inc and other makers of the widely used Linux operating system for business computers updated their software on Tuesday to thwart a serious new cyber threat they warned could allow hackers to gain remote control of their systems.
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Singapore is gearing up for a crackdown on cyber crime with the launch of a central agency and the appointment of a minister in charge of cyber security, the government said on Tuesday, as the wealthy city-state grapples with a rise in online crime. In recent years, Singapore has struggled to combat cyber criminals, who…
India’s cyber-security budget was more than doubled last year. Yet, it is “woefully inadequate” in the wake of revelations made by US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and increasing cyber-attacks on government infrastructure, according to experts. In 2014-15, the Department of IT has set aside Rs 116 crore for cyber security. The country has…
President Obama laid out a sweeping vision for the future of U.S.-India relations here Tuesday, pushing India on human rights issues while asserting that the relationship between the two countries could become one of the “defining partnerships” of the 21st Century. Obama, speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of 1,500 at Siri Fort Auditorium here in…
At this time an outcry is everywhere, a warning alarm about the fate of ‘freedom of expression’ in the west and the rest of the universe. The alarms are various and of different magnitude; at time they warn of the descent of “terrorists.” Some warn of the deepening of the roots of the “Islamic fundamentalism,”…