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December 14, 2020

US Congress passes new IoT cybersecurity law

Congress recently made significant progress toward greater IoT security in the United States when it enacted the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020.

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December 12, 2020

Chinese embassy blames hackers for retweet of Trump’s claim that Democrats cheated in election

The Chinese embassy in the U.S. said its Twitter account was hacked after it retweeted a baseless claim from President Donald Trump that the Democrats cheated in the election.

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December 9, 2020

Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves

The latest drone technology has the power to transform everyday policing, just as it can transform package delivery, building inspections and military reconnaissance.

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December 9, 2020

How an ICE Contractor Tracks Phones Around the World

New documents show how Venntel, which sells some of its location data to ICE, CBP, and the FBI, obtains the information from ordinary apps.

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December 9, 2020

Feds logged website visitors in 2019, citing Patriot Act authority

The federal government gathered up visitor logs for some websites in 2019.

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December 7, 2020

Trump admin mulls blocking cloud firms from countries like China

A proposed executive order that could keep American cloud computing companies out of certain foreign countries is being circulated within the Trump administration.

December 7, 2020

San Diego Plans for Military-Grade Drone to Catch Speeding Drivers

San Diego planned to use the military-grade SkyGuardian drone for vehicle enforcement on the freeway.

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December 7, 2020

ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources

Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources.

December 3, 2020

Homeland Security Watchdog to Probe Department’s Use of Phone Location Data

The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog said it would open an investigation into the use of mobile-phone surveillance technologies […]