Hmmm. I had missed this one, but thankfully, Joe Cadillic didn’t. Frank Bajak of Associated Press reported: In the first known case of its kind, U.S. drug agents supplied unwitting cocaine-trafficking suspects in California with smartphones they thought were encrypted but had been rigged to allow eavesdropping, Human Rights Watch [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes: Golf fans will be happy to know that the LPGA considers every fan a potential terrorist. Last week an article in Sport Techie revealed that the LPGA is using NEC’s biometric NeoFace facial recognition technology to identify every fan. Why would the LGPA use facial recognition to spy on [Read More…]
Frances Cook reports: A stoush has erupted over patient medical records, with a claim the privacy of up to 800,000 Auckland patients has been put at risk. Four New Zealand and Australasian healthcare IT companies, Healthlink, Medtech Global, My Practice, and Best Practice Software New Zealand, have jointly contacted the [Read More…]
The Himalayan Times has an editorial today about privacy. It begins: In the run-up to the provincial and federal parliamentary elections, one of the measures parties had resorted to seeking votes was sending text messages to people on their mobile phones. This in today’s modern world did not come as [Read More…]