Internet Surveillance

The police tracked down the taxi driver with the assistance of the surveillance system.

China can uncover the identities of Apple device owners who send messages and content using AirDrop. A Chinese institute has found a way to uncover both the email addresses and phone numbers of users who send content via AirDrop by decrypting the device log of an iPhone. China has been looking for ways to monitor Apple's AirDrop wireless sharing pr...

Netflix India has dropped the trailer for its upcoming spy-thriller film Khufiya, which features Tabu as a hard-nosed R&AW field operative Krishna Mehra. Set for an October 5 debut, the film follows her attempts at tracking down a mole within her organisation by navigating an elaborate surveillance scheme. Khufiya also stars Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi...

The Editors Guild of India has expressed concerns over certain provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, saying they can have an adverse impact on press freedom. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Guild said the DPDP Bill creates an enabling framework for the surveillance of citizens, including journalists and their sources.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first appearance before a Senate panel next week as the US Congress grapples with how best to regulate artificial intelligence as the technology becomes more powerful and widespread. Altman will testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law on Tuesday on what laws might be need...

The European Union needs to speed up work on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, Commission vice president Margrethe Vestager suggested. The European Commission put forward regulatory proposals in early 2021, but progress on the legislation has been slow. The EU's draft rules outlaw certain uses such as "generalised surveillance".

Germany's anti-cartel watchdog said Wednesday it had placed US computing giant Apple under closer surveillance for any possible abuse of its market position.

A "high-level" of public support for certain forms of government surveillance like through CCTV cameras was found in a recently conducted survey. One out of two people responding to a recent survey said they fully support the use of FRT (facial recognition technology) by the government and police. Meanwhile, nearly two out of three respondents beli...

Activision Blizzard violated US labour law by illegally surveilling employees during a walkout and threatening to shut down internal chat channels as a union sought to organize its workers, a federal labour agency said on Friday. The Communication Workers of America union (CWA) has accused the Call of Duty maker of a series of illegal labour practi...

France on Thursday approved the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for the upcoming 2024 Pris Olympics, with algorithmic video surveillance to detect "pre-determined events", abnormal behaviour and crowd surges. The French National assembly approved the use of the technology despite warnings from rights groups that have said the AI-based technolo...

Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.

The US Supreme Court today declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit against the National Security Agency challenging mass online surveillance.

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

A study on Thursday claimed that more people were in support of internet shut down to maintain law and order than those opposing it, and a sizable number of people were in favour of surveillance as well.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday announced an initiative seeking public comment on the effects of companies’ data collection and the potential benefit of new rules to protect consumers’ privacy. The federal regulator is looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data securi...

The police tracked down the taxi driver with the assistance of the surveillance system.

China can uncover the identities of Apple device owners who send messages and content using AirDrop. A Chinese institute has found a way to uncover both the email addresses and phone numbers of users who send content via AirDrop by decrypting the device log of an iPhone. China has been looking for ways to monitor Apple's AirDrop wireless sharing pr...

Netflix India has dropped the trailer for its upcoming spy-thriller film Khufiya, which features Tabu as a hard-nosed R&AW field operative Krishna Mehra. Set for an October 5 debut, the film follows her attempts at tracking down a mole within her organisation by navigating an elaborate surveillance scheme. Khufiya also stars Ali Fazal, Wamiqa Gabbi...

The Editors Guild of India has expressed concerns over certain provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, saying they can have an adverse impact on press freedom. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Guild said the DPDP Bill creates an enabling framework for the surveillance of citizens, including journalists and their sources.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will make his first appearance before a Senate panel next week as the US Congress grapples with how best to regulate artificial intelligence as the technology becomes more powerful and widespread. Altman will testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology & the Law on Tuesday on what laws might be need...

The European Union needs to speed up work on artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, Commission vice president Margrethe Vestager suggested. The European Commission put forward regulatory proposals in early 2021, but progress on the legislation has been slow. The EU's draft rules outlaw certain uses such as "generalised surveillance".

Germany's anti-cartel watchdog said Wednesday it had placed US computing giant Apple under closer surveillance for any possible abuse of its market position.

A "high-level" of public support for certain forms of government surveillance like through CCTV cameras was found in a recently conducted survey. One out of two people responding to a recent survey said they fully support the use of FRT (facial recognition technology) by the government and police. Meanwhile, nearly two out of three respondents beli...

Activision Blizzard violated US labour law by illegally surveilling employees during a walkout and threatening to shut down internal chat channels as a union sought to organize its workers, a federal labour agency said on Friday. The Communication Workers of America union (CWA) has accused the Call of Duty maker of a series of illegal labour practi...

France on Thursday approved the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for the upcoming 2024 Pris Olympics, with algorithmic video surveillance to detect "pre-determined events", abnormal behaviour and crowd surges. The French National assembly approved the use of the technology despite warnings from rights groups that have said the AI-based technolo...

Amazon has seen hundreds of workers strike at its Coventry warehouse in the UK, as employees push back against long hours and a surveillance system that records the time taken to do each task, as well as going to the toilet. Here's how Amazon can improve work quality without turning its workers into robots.

The US Supreme Court today declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia to resurrect its lawsuit against the National Security Agency challenging mass online surveillance.

The US Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

A study on Thursday claimed that more people were in support of internet shut down to maintain law and order than those opposing it, and a sizable number of people were in favour of surveillance as well.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday announced an initiative seeking public comment on the effects of companies’ data collection and the potential benefit of new rules to protect consumers’ privacy. The federal regulator is looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data securi...