Tim Cushing reports: The Baltimore Police Department was an enthusiastic early adopter of cell site simulator technology. In 2015, a Baltimore detective admitted the department had deployed its collection of cell tower spoofers 4,300 times since 2007. The best estimate on how many of those 4,300 deployments ever showed up in [Read More…]
Susan Montoya Bryan reports: A U.S. district judge has rejected an effort to derail New Mexico’s lawsuit against Twitter, Google and other companies that develop and market mobile gaming apps for children. The judge concluded in a ruling Tuesday that the court has jurisdiction over the case, clearing the way for [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic has been in overdrive, trying to keep us all informed about threats to our privacy and civil liberties. I can’t even keep up with all the links he sends me during the course of a day, so I thought that this week, I would just give you a [Read More…]
Marija Ristic, Milica Stojanovic, Miroslava German Sirotnikova, Akos Keller-Alant, Hamdi Firat Buyuk, Anja Vladisavljevic, Marcel Gascón Barberá and Madalin Necsutu write: …. Just in the last two weeks, 80 people have been arrested, some of them jailed, for spreading fake news and disinformation, with the most draconic examples in Turkey, [Read More…]