China enlisted surveillance firms to help draw up standards for mass facial recognition systems, researchers said, warning that an unusually heavy emphasis on tracking characteristics such as ethnicity created wide scope for abuse.
Ikea’s French subsidiary and several of its former executives went on trial Monday over accusations that they illegally spied on employees and customers.
Swiss law enforcement raided the home of a hacker potentially responsible for breaching around 150,000 surveillance cameras, exposing sensitive footage from homes, hospitals and prisons.
Many jurisdictions have adopted legal requirements that indirectly regulate network monitoring activities, since monitoring typically requires the collection and tracking of IP addresses, device IDs and other data that can be linked to a particular employee’s communication devices.
The constitutional court banned the South African state from bulk surveillance of online communication, preventing security agencies from hoovering up Internet data.
The UK High Court has ruled that the security and intelligence services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single ‘general warrant’.
Leaked Nintendo documents have revealed a frightening surveillance operation carried out against a hacker who was researching exploits for the 3DS handheld.
A satellite company called Capella Space just launched its platform for SAR imaging satellites that can peer through clouds and even some buildings.
COVID-weary European governments will force anyone caught with ski gear into compulsory quarantine.
Amazon sued for secretly monitoring workers confidential postings in their closed Facebook groups.
Huawei has worked with dozens of security contractors to develop surveillance products for China’s police.
Varanasi in India is installing 3,000 CCTV cameras with automated facial recognition tech at the city’s crossings.