J.R. Wu reports: Taiwanese regulators cleared on Tuesday China’s Xiaomi Inc and other smartphone brands of breaching local data protection laws after national security concerns triggered the government to launch a probe in September. The National Communications Commission, in a report concluding the investigation, said all the 12 brands it had tested, which include handsets…
Month: December 2014
Snowden docs show limit of NSA’s snooping
Julian Hattem reports: Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency, despite its seemingly best efforts, is unable to crack certain types of cyber defenses. The German newspaper Der Spiegel uncovered among the former contractor’s document trove new details about the extent of the spy agency’s ability to crack online encryption, which defenders of…
Mugshot Websites Accused of Defamation
An item in Courthouse News not only reminds us of the risks of ID theft, but highlights the problem of mug shot websites that post – and refuse to delete without fee – pictures. Sheyrane Sterling has reportedly sued Unpublish LLC, Whois Privacy Pty. Ltd., Mugshots.com, and Openbare Dienst Internationale in Westchester County Court, New…
License Plate Reader Technology Looks At Faces
TheNewspaper.com reports: The leading suppler of automated license plate reader technology in the US (ALPR, also known as ANPR in Europe) is expanding its offerings to law enforcement. Vehicle owners have already had their movements tracked by the company Vigilant Solutions, which boasts 2 billion entries in its nationwide database, with 70 million additional license…