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Seattle spends five years failing to come up with a privacy policy for its...
Five years after activists forced Seattle's mayor to return the city's surveillance drones to their manufacturer, the city has announced that it is terminating its warrantless mass-surveillance...
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Floral CCTV wallpaper
knt​.​remembr is a pretty great track from Knxwledge, but man, what I would give to have that wallpaper! Update: thanks to Deb Chachra for identifying the source: Dan Funderburgh's "Vigilant Floral".)...
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Self-powering camera: an image sensor that's also a photovoltaic cell
A team of University of Michigan electrical engineering/computer science researchers have published a paper (Sci-Hub mirror) detailing their work in creating a camera sensor (a device that converts...
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Over 55,000 security camera DVRs are vulnerable to an exploit so simple it...
Last month, Argentinian security researcher Ezequiel Fernandez published CVE-2018-9995, a vulnerability he discovered in dozens of brands of DVR that are all based on the same white-label devices,...
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Self-hacking Internet of Shit camera automatically sends randos the feed from...
Last week, I wrote about Shenzhen Gwelltimes Technology Co's ubiquitous "home security" cameras that can be hacked with ease by voyeurs and criminals, seemingly the last word in dangerously lax...
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Calgary malls caught secretly using facial recognition to characterise...
Calgary's Chinook Centre and Market Mall -- operated by Cadillac Fairview -- have been caught running background software that analysed the footage from the CCTVs in the malls' electronic directories...
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Trou: a soft, CCTV-bugged interactive sculpture that you ram your hand and...
Trou is an interactive sculpture from Valencia, Spain's Mireia Donat Melús: the nylon and silicon fiber blob invites viewers to don a surgical glove and insert their hands and arms into an elastic...
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Who is this mysterious shackled woman ringing doorbells in Texas?
(UPDATE HERE) Police in Montgomery County, Texas are searching for this mysterious woman who was apparently ringing multiple doorbells in the middle of the night at a subdivision over the weekend....
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Security researchers can access and modify security footage from Nuuo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EuFOZfRL4U Nuuo is a leading vendor of "trusted video management" tools used in conjunction with CCTVs deployed in sensitive applications like surveillance of...
View ArticleSpectacle frames that reflect infrared light, blinding CCTV cameras
Eccentric spectacle-maker Scott Urban kickstarted his Reflectacles in 2016: ray-ban-style frames inset with highly retroreflective material that is visible from hundreds of meters and strobes under a...
View ArticleICE and the DEA have secretly hidden cameras in some streetlights
Government procurement data reveals that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency have each spent tens of thousands of dollars on products from Houston's Cowboy...
View ArticleHouston's "inchworm bandits" create performance art while robbing restaurants...
CCTV footage from a wave of after-hours robberies in Houston has birthed a viral sensation, thanks to the robbers' tactic of commando-crawling on the floor, which has led to them being dubbed the...
View ArticleWashington State sheriff used courtroom camera to zoom in on defense attorney...
A San Juan county assault case has been thrown out after it was revealed that Sheriff Ron Krebs had used the courtroom's cameras to zoom in on the notes of the defense attorney and a juror. The San...
View ArticleResearchers find mountains of sensitive data on totalled Teslas in junkyards
Teslas are incredibly data-hungry, storing massive troves of data about their owners, including videos of crashes, location history, contacts and calendar entries from paired phones, photos of the...
View ArticleMysterious New Orleans "anti-crime" camera emblazoned with NOPD logos outside...
New Orleans is festooned with police cameras, the legacy of a secret partnership with the surveillance contractor Palantir, which used New Orleans as a covert laboratory for predictive policing...
View ArticleAmazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data...
Mining the results of public records requests relating to Amazon's secret deals with local law enforcement to promote its Ring surveillance doorbells (more than 200 agencies!) continue to bear fruit....
View Article#NothingButDragnet: EFF calls on @Shaq to stop endorsing police partnerships...
Amazon's Ring surveillance doorbells are part of a secretive, nationwide police surveillance network, with cops being offered covert incentives to act as street-teams to buzz market the products, and...
View ArticleAfter random surveillance images started to show up on users' devices, Google...
Last week, a redditor posted that "When I load the Xiaomi camera in my Google home hub I get stills from other people's homes!!" The post included video of the user's tablet showing stills of...
View ArticleLondon cops announce citywide facial recognition cameras
In 2018, London's Metropolitan Police Force announced trials of a facial recognition system that could be married to the city's legendarily invasive CCTV thicket; the tests failed 98% of the time and...
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Backlash in China brewing against rampant face-recognition in daily life
Over at Technode, Shi Jiayi synthesizes recent stories in Chinese media showing how China's ever-surveilled population is getting sick of rampant face-recognition, and is speaking out. Face-recognition...
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