Driver’s Licenses Go Digital – IEEE Spectrum
Will you have to have an ID to sit in an autonomous vehicle? Digital driver’s licenses are coming to the United States, harnessing biometrics like […]
Privacy
Genealogy Websites Were Key to Big Break in Golden State Killer Case – The New York Times
Investigators used DNA from crime scenes and plugged that genetic profile into a private online genealogy database. They found distant relatives of Mr. DeAngelo’s and […]
Hide Secret Messages In Plain Sight With Zero-Width Characters
Fingerprinting text is really very nifty; the ability to encode hidden data within a string of characters opens up a large number of opportunities. For […]
BAD TRAFFIC: Sandvine’s PacketLogic Devices Used to Deploy Government Spyware in Turkey and Redirect Egyptian Users to Affiliate Ads?
This section describes how we obtained the first-ever packet captures (PCAPs) of nation-state spyware injection, and how we matched the characteristics of the spyware injection […]
EFF: Geek Squad has been working with the FBI for a decade
The FBI classifies the Geek Squad technicians who call in the reports as informants, but some of the documents in EFF’s possession suggest they sometimes […]
House Democrats Join Everyone Else in Letting Equifax Off Easy for Catastrophic Hack
After Equifax’s negligence allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 145.5 million Americans, the company promised to give everyone free credit monitoring for a […]
WV house committee axes bill to stop law enforcement property forfeitures | Cops & Courts | wvgazettemail.com
State code allows law enforcement officers to claim ownership of property seized from criminal suspects without convicting them of a crime; the House Judiciary Committee […]
Men In Grey
Men In Grey (2009-2014). “We are the lightning in an age of cloud computing. “The Men In Grey (2009-2014) was a conspiracy, applied research framework […]
Why cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off your autonomous car | Ars Technica
For now, federal law and Supreme Court precedent dictates that law enforcement has the authority to legally monitor anyone in public. The basic idea is […]
A wedding cake is an ‘artistic expression’ that a baker may deny to a same-sex couple, Calif. judge rules – The Washington Post
Free speech > Equality? Forcing a baker to provide a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage over her religious objections violates her right to free […]