Joe Cadillic writes: 911 dispatchers are about to join the ranks of District Attorneys (DA) using CCTV cameras to monitor the public. “The district attorney for Pennsylvania’s second-most-populous county, Stephen Zappala Jr. has assembled a network of advanced surveillance cameras in and around Pittsburgh and has enlisted colleagues in four surrounding counties to [Read More…]
Angelica Mari reports: The Brazilian government will create a single citizen database that will contain a wide range of personal information about the country’s population of over 200 million people, to be fully shared across departments. According to the decree signed by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, the objectives of the [Read More…]
Katy Griffin reports: A Fordingbridge man says he was “stunned” and “very upset” after discovering by chance that his medical records had been accessed and details shared without his consent. The data breach took place in 2016 but Robert Richardson found out about it more than two years later after [Read More…]
Chris Burt reports: Perceptics, the automated license plate reader company that suffered a massive breach of data it had collected under contract to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has agreed to new security controls and will be allowed to continue working with the agency, The Washington Post reports. At the time [Read More…]