FBI Wants Real-time Warrantless Access to Online Communication
By Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | The New American The Obama administration is attacking the Fourth Amendment on every possible front. The latest assault would require Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, etc. to submit to real-time warrantless wiretaps on customer accounts. Tweets, Facebook posts and direct messages, e-mail, all conversations on messenger apps, and all other online [...]
Read More →High-Tech NYPD Unit Tracks Criminals Through Facebook and Instagram Photos
By Murray Weiss | DNA Info Socializing online is landing criminals in custody. Police are searching for suspects’ photos on Instagram and Facebook, then running them through the NYPD’s new Facial Recognition Unit to put a face to a name, DNAinfo New York has learned. Detectives are now breaking cases across the city thanks to the futuristic technology that [...]
Read More →Future Planet – Future of Surveillance
By David Tow | International The Director of the Future Planet Research Centre- David Hunter Tow, predicts that by 2030 the equivalent of a global PreCognition machine will be in operation with everyone a Person of Interest as portrayed in The Minority Report film. The state of surveillance and reconnaissance technology and its multiple applications is [...]
Read More →World in the net of total spying
By Nikita Sorokin | VOR Posting their personal photos with various comments on line, most users do not give a thought to the fact that they willingly place themselves under the control of a large number of interested individuals and organisations. Several companies specializing in software are developing programmes for monitoring people’s activities with the help [...]
Read More →Coming soon: ‘Twitter squads’ to cope with rising social media crimes
ANI British police may have to employ ‘Twitter Squads’ if crimes involving social networks continue to rocket, a top cop has warned. New figures have revealed that complaints of crimes involving Facebook and Twitter have increased 780 percent in four years, resulting in more than 650 people being charged this year. According to the statistics [...]
Read More →Facebook accused of massive ‘data grab’ with new service that automatically uploads your phone pictures
By Damien Gayle | Daily Mail Facebook has been accused of a massive ‘data grab’ after encouraging users to allow it to automatically synchronise photos from their mobile devices to the social networks servers. The social network from Friday began asking users of its mobile apps to activate its new Photo Sync, which will automatically upload each [...]
Read More →Irish sex offender launches legal bid to remove Facebook page ‘monitoring paedophiles’
ANI A convicted sex offender in Ireland has reportedly taken a legal action to force Facebook to remove a page set up to monitor paedophiles. The unidentified man is also seeking an injunction to stop his photograph and details from appearing on the social networking site. Proceedings were brought before the High Court over the [...]
Read More →FBI agents use Facebook and Twitter to look for insider trading
By Emil Protalinski | TNW The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regularly checks social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, for insider trading, according to two top agents, April Brooks and David Chaves, who oversee what the FBI calls Operation Perfect Hedge. The initiative has resulted in more than 60 convictions of hedge fund traders, [...]
Read More →Facebook’s new privacy policy conflicting with European law concerns regulators
ANI | ZeeNews Parts of Facebook’s newly proposed privacy policy has concerned privacy advocates over being in conflict with European law. It came after a key regulator moved to give users in the European Union more power to block the sharing of their data with the company’s affiliates such as Instagram. Gary T. Davis, deputy [...]
Read More →Twitter and Facebook ‘harming children’s development’
By Graeme Paton | The Telegraph Young people’s brains are failing to develop properly after being overexposed to the cyber world at an early age, it was claimed. Baroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, said a decline in physical human contact meant children struggled to formulate basic social skills and emotional reactions. She criticised [...]
Read More →Facebook helps prevent terroristic attack on Federal Reserve
DailyDot Facebook played a key part in stopping a potential Federal Reserve bomber. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi national with alleged ties to Al Queda, was arrested for attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb. Nafis was immediately arrested and charged [...]
Read More →Google, Facebook threaten to block UK’s controversial plan to ‘snoop on citizens online activities’
ANI Internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter are set to torpedo Home Office plans to spy on every citizen’s e-mails and website visits. They have threatened to block the so-called ‘snoopers’ charter’, which requires them to store all data for a year so that security agencies, police and councils can request its disclosure. Civil liberty [...]
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